Year in Japan

1213 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kempo 建保 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kempo 建保 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from December 1213 to April 1219

Reading the year 1213 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1213 corresponds to Kempo 建保 (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 1213年 (1213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.