Year in Japan

1238 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ryakunin 暦仁 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ryakunin 暦仁 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from November 1238 to April 1239

Reading the year 1238 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1238 corresponds to Ryakunin 暦仁 (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 1238年 (1238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.