Year in Japan

1334 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Kenmu Restoration period (建武の新政, 1333 – 1336).

Era name: Kemmu 建武 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kemmu 建武 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from January 1334 to August 1338

Reading the year 1334 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1334 corresponds to Kemmu 建武 (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 1334年 (1334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.