Year in Japan
1210 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).
Era name: Jōgen 承元 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Konoe Kanetsune 近衛兼経 · Politician — Kugyō, Sesshō and Kampaku
- Kujō Norizane 九条教実 · Samurai — kugyō
- Hinoe Castle 日野江城 · Castle — Japanese castle in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki prefecture
Reading the year 1210 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1210 corresponds to Jōgen 承元 (year 4 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 1210年 (1210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.