Year in Japan

1381 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kōwa 弘和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Eitoku 永徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1381 to February 1384
Kōwa 弘和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era name for years spanning 1381 through 1383
Akamatsu Mitsusuke 赤松満祐 · Samurai — samurai
Shōtetsu 正徹 · Writer — Japanese Zen monk and poet

Reading the year 1381 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1381 corresponds to Kōwa 弘和 (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 1381年 (1381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.