Year in Japan

1320 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Gen'ō 元応 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Nijō Yoshimoto 二条良基 · Politician — Japanese noble

Reading the year 1320 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1320 corresponds to Gen'ō 元応 (year 2 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 1320年 (1320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.