How to read it

1922 minus 1912, the year Taishō began, plus one, gives 11: 大正11年. The shortcut Japanese people use: add 11 to a Taishō year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 11 + 11 = 22. On paper it is T11: forms print the era options — 明・大・昭・平・令, or the letters M T S H R — beside the date box, and you circle one and write the number. Someone born in 1922 turns 104 in 2026. In kazoedoshi 数え年 — the traditional count that starts at one at birth and adds a year every New Year — they are 105.

Other years

• 1917大正6年
• 1918大正7年
• 1919大正8年
• 1920大正9年
• 1921大正10年
• 1923大正12年
• 1924大正13年
• 1925大正14年
• 1926昭和元年
• 1927昭和2年

Every year of the Taishō era → · How the Japanese calendar works, and every year 1868–2050