Year in Japan
1253 in Japanese History
2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).
Era name: Kenchō 建長 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kenchō-ji Temple 建長寺 · Buddhist temple — temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Ankokuron-ji Temple 安国論寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 1253 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1253 corresponds to Kenchō 建長 (year 5 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 1253年 (1253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.