Year in Japan
1275 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).
Era name: Kenji 建治 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kenji 建治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1275 to February 1278
- Musō Soseki 夢窓疎石 · Philosopher — Japanese Zen-Buddhist teacher and landscape architect (1275-1351)
- Takatsukasa Fuyuhira 鷹司冬平 · Politician — kugyo or highest-ranking Japanese court noble of the Kamakura period
Reading the year 1275 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1275 corresponds to Kenji 建治 (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 1275年 (1275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.