Year in Japan

1259 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōgen 正元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōgen 正元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1259 to April 1260

Reading the year 1259 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1259 corresponds to Shōgen 正元 (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 1259年 (1259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.