Year in Japan
999 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Chōhō 長保 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Chōhō 長保 · Japanese era name — Japanese era spanning from January 999 through July 1004
- Koshikibu no Naishi 小式部内侍 · Writer — Japanese waka poet
- Daini no Sanmi 大弐三位 · Writer — Japanese poet in the Heian period; daughter of Murasaki Shikibu
Reading the year 999 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 999 corresponds to Chōhō 長保 (year 1 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 999年 (999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.