Year in Japan

1246 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kangen 寛元 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Konoe Motohira 近衛基平 · Politician — Japanese court noble
Takezaki Suenaga 竹崎季長 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1246 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1246 corresponds to Kangen 寛元 (year 4 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 1246年 (1246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.