Year in Japan

1319 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Gen'ō 元応 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Gen'ō 元応 · Japanese era name — Japanese era name (1319–1321)
Kikuchi Takemitsu 菊池武光 · Military officer — Japanese soldier

Reading the year 1319 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1319 corresponds to Gen'ō 元応 (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 1319年 (1319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.