Year in Japan

1370 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Kentoku 建徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kentoku 建徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1370 to April 1372

Reading the year 1370 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1370 corresponds to Kentoku 建徳 (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 1370年 (1370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.