Year in Japan

1312 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōwa 正和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōwa 正和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era name (March 1312 – February 1317) within the Kamakura period

Reading the year 1312 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1312 corresponds to Shōwa 正和 (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 1312年 (1312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.