Year in Japan

1331 in Japanese History

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

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

What happened 出来事

Oct 21 Siege of Akasaka 赤坂城の戦い · Siege — 1331 siege
Genkō 元弘 · Japanese era name — penultimate Japanese era of Kamakura period
Nitta Yoshioki 新田義興 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Siege of Kasagi 笠置山の戦い · Siege — 1331 siege

Reading the year 1331 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1331 corresponds to Genkō 元弘 (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 1331年 (1331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.