Year in Japan

998 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).

Era name: Chōtoku 長徳 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sagami 相模 (歌人) · Writer — Japanese waka poet

Reading the year 998 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 998 corresponds to Chōtoku 長徳 (year 4 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 998年 (998ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 10th century for its neighbours.