Year in Japan

1257 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōka 正嘉 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōka 正嘉 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1257 to March 1259
Ichigatsu-ji Temple 一月寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 1257 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1257 corresponds to Shōka 正嘉 (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 1257年 (1257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.