Year in Japan
1291 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).
Era name: Shōō 正応 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ichijō Uchitsune 一条内経 · Samurai — Court noble
- Tōin Kinkata 洞院公賢 · Politician — court noble in the Nambokuchō period Japan
- Nanzen-ji Temple 南禅寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 1291 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1291 corresponds to Shōō 正応 (year 4 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 1291年 (1291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.