Year in Japan

1230 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kangi 寛喜 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōjō Nagatoki 北条長時 · Samurai — 6th Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1230 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1230 corresponds to Kangi 寛喜 (year 2 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 1230年 (1230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.