Year in Japan

1390 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Meitoku 明徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Meitoku 明徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1390 to July 1394

Reading the year 1390 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1390 corresponds to Meitoku 明徳 (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 1390年 (1390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.