Year in Japan

1224 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Gennin 元仁 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Gennin 元仁 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from November 1224 to April 1225
Hōjō Tsunetoki 北条経時 · Samurai — 4th Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1224 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1224 corresponds to Gennin 元仁 (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 1224年 (1224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.