Year in Japan

1248 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōji 宝治 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ichijō Ietsune 一条家経 · Politician — Court noble
Kujō Tadanori 九条忠教 · Politician — kugyō

Reading the year 1248 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1248 corresponds to Hōji 宝治 (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 1248年 (1248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.