Year in Japan

1234 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunryaku 文暦 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Bunryaku 文暦 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from November 1234 to September 1235

Reading the year 1234 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1234 corresponds to Bunryaku 文暦 (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 1234年 (1234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.