Year in Japan

1276 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kenji 建治 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hisaaki-shinnō 久明親王 · Samurai — 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan
Tanjō-ji Temple 誕生寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 1276 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1276 corresponds to Kenji 建治 (year 2 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 1276年 (1276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.