Year in Japan

1288 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōō 正応 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōō 正応 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1288 to 1293
Nijō Michihira 二条道平 · Politician — Japanese noble

Reading the year 1288 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1288 corresponds to Shōō 正応 (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 1288年 (1288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.