Year in Japan

1229 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kangi 寛喜 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kangi 寛喜 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1229 to April 1232
Kujō Tadaie 九条忠家 · Samurai — kugyō

Reading the year 1229 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1229 corresponds to Kangi 寛喜 (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 1229年 (1229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.