Year in Japan

1256 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kōgen 康元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kōgen 康元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from October 1256 to March 1257
Manman-ji Temple 万満寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Matsudo, Chiba prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 1256 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1256 corresponds to Kōgen 康元 (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 1256年 (1256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.