Year in Japan

1222 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōō 貞応 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jōō 貞応 · Japanese era name — period of Japanese history (1222–1224 CE)
Nichiren 日蓮 · Philosopher — Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
Abutsu-ni 阿仏尼 · Writer — Japanese poet of the Kamakura period

Reading the year 1222 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1222 corresponds to Jōō 貞応 (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 1222年 (1222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.