shogun japan By kcolo1@mybce.catholic.edu.au 1100 Introduction of Zen Buddhism 1100 Rise of the Samurai class in Japan 1192 Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun Period: 1274 to 1281 The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1336 Ashikaga Shogunate begins Period: 1467 to 1477 Onin War and the start of the Sengoku Period 1549 Arrival of Christian missionarie 1580 Oda Nobunaga unifies much of Japan 1590 Toyotomi Hideyoshi completes Japan’s unification 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun Period: 1603 to 1868 Bushido code becomes central to samurai life 1639 Sakoku – Japan’s isolation policy 1853 Opening of Japan