Year in Japan

1272 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bun'ei 文永 (year 9 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōjō Sadatoki 北条貞時 · Samurai — 9th Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1272 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1272 corresponds to Bun'ei 文永 (year 9 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 1272年 (1272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.