Year in Japan

1261 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kōchō 弘長 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kōchō 弘長 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1261 to February 1264
Konoe Iemoto 近衛家基 · Politician — kugyō

Reading the year 1261 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1261 corresponds to Kōchō 弘長 (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 1261年 (1261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.