Year in Japan

1204 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genkyū 元久 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Genkyū 元久 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1204 to April 1206

Reading the year 1204 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1204 corresponds to Genkyū 元久 (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 1204年 (1204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.