Year in Japan

1233 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenpuku 天福 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tenpuku 天福 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1233 to November 1234

Reading the year 1233 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1233 corresponds to Tenpuku 天福 (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 1233年 (1233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.