Year in Japan

1199 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōji 正治 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōji 正治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1199 to February 1201
Hitoyoshi Castle 人吉城 · Castle — Japanese castle in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture

Reading the year 1199 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1199 corresponds to Shōji 正治 (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 1199年 (1199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.