Year in Japan

1321 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genkō 元亨 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Genkō 元亨 · Japanese era name — Japanese era within the Kamakura period
Sōji-ji Temple 總持寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Yokohama, Japan

Reading the year 1321 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1321 corresponds to Genkō 元亨 (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 1321年 (1321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.