Year in Japan

1200 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōji 正治 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Dōgen 道元 · Philosopher — Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
Jufuku-ji Temple 寿福寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Hiki Yoshikazu 比企能員 · Samurai — Japanese warrior-noble of the Kamakura period
Gishūmon-in no Tango 宜秋門院丹後 · Writer — Japanese poet

Reading the year 1200 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1200 corresponds to Shōji 正治 (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 1200年 (1200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.