Year in Japan

1185 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).

Era name: Bunji 文治 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jan 10 Battle of Kojima 藤戸の戦い · Battle — 1184 Japanese battle in the Genpei Wars
Mar 22 Battle of Yashima 屋島の戦い · Battle — part of the Genpei War (March 22, 1185)
Bunji 文治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from August 1185 to April 1190
Shakujii Castle 石神井城 · Castle — building in Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Reading the year 1185 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1185 corresponds to Bunji 文治 (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 1185年 (1185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.