Year in Japan
1273 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).
Era name: Bun'ei 文永 (year 10 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kujō Moronori 九条師教 · Samurai — kugyō
- Kōmyōzen-ji 光明禅寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Ankoku-ji Temple 安国寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 1273 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1273 corresponds to Bun'ei 文永 (year 10 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 1273年 (1273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.