Year in Japan

1254 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 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Nijō Morotada 二条師忠 · Politician — Japanese noble
Fujiwara no Tamekane 京極為兼 · Politician — poet (1254-1332)

Reading the year 1254 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1254 corresponds to Kenchō 建長 (year 6 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 1254年 (1254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.