Year in Japan
1394 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Ōei 応永 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ōei 応永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1394 to April 1428
- Ashikaga Yoshinori 足利義教 · Samurai — The sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1394–1441)
- Kujō Mitsuie 九条満家 · Politician — kugyō
Reading the year 1394 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1394 corresponds to Ōei 応永 (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 1394年 (1394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.