Year in Japan

1384 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genchū 元中 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shitoku 至徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1384 to August 1387
Genchū 元中 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1384 to October 1392
Aizuwakamatsu Castle 若松城 · Castle — castle in Fukushima pref., Japan

Reading the year 1384 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1384 corresponds to Genchū 元中 (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 1384年 (1384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.