Year in Japan

1206 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ken'ei 建永 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ken'ei 建永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1206 to October 1207
Kōzan-ji Temple 高山寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 1206 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1206 corresponds to Ken'ei 建永 (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 1206年 (1206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.