Year in Japan

1183 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Juei 寿永 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōjō Yasutoki 北条泰時 · Samurai — 3rd Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1183 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1183 corresponds to Juei 寿永 (year 2 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 1183年 (1183ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 12th century for its neighbours.