Year in Japan

1201 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kennin 建仁 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kennin 建仁 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1201 to February 1204
Go-Saga-in chūnagon no tenji 尚侍家中納言 · Writer — Japanese noblewoman and poet
Gifu Castle 岐阜城 · Castle — fortification

Reading the year 1201 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1201 corresponds to Kennin 建仁 (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 1201年 (1201ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 13th century for its neighbours.