Year in Japan

1302 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kengen 乾元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kengen 乾元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1302 to 1303

Reading the year 1302 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1302 corresponds to Kengen 乾元 (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 1302年 (1302ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 14th century for its neighbours.