Year in Japan

1308 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Enkyō 延慶 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Enkyō 延慶 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1308 to 1311
Moriyoshi-shinnō 護良親王 · Samurai — Japanese prince in the Nanbokucho period

Reading the year 1308 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1308 corresponds to Enkyō 延慶 (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 1308年 (1308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.