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japan timeline

  • Period: 794 to 1185

    THE HEIAN period

    Throughout the Heian period, the power of the court grew but the emperor's control over the expanding territory didn’t keep up. As the distance from the capital grew, the influence of the emperor and the court diminished. Emperors found they were increasingly dependent on powerful nobles,
  • 1100

    Rise of the Samurai Class

  • Period: 1180 to 1185

    the genpai war

    The Genpei War, 1180 - 1185, was a national civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan. It resulted in the downfall of the Taira and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto no Yoritomo, who appointed himself as Shōgun in 1192, governing Japan as a military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura. Minamoto Yoritomo formed the first bakufu and ruled as Japan's first shogun from his capital at Kamakura.
  • Period: 1185 to 1333

    kamakura period

    expeditionary force against the barbarians). Traditionally a temporary rank which ended at the completion of a military campaign, Yoritomo established the position as a hereditary system, passing the title on to his elder son Yoriie and then his younger son after that. While there had been shoguns before Yoshitomo, none had held more power or influence. So powerful was the Shogun that, while the emperor and court remained in Kyoto, they held a ceremonial position with little administrative
  • 1191

    Introduction of Zen Buddhism

  • 1192

    Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun

  • 1274

    The Mongol Invasions of Japan

  • 1336

    Ashikaga Shogunate begins

  • Period: 1336 to 1573

    muromachi period

    expeditionary force against the barbarians). Traditionally a temporary rank which ended at the completion of a military campaign, Yoritomo established the position as a hereditary system, passing the title on to his elder son Yoriie and then his younger son after that.
  • 1467

    Ōnin War and the start of the Sengoku Period

  • 1549

    Arrival of Christian missionaries (Francis Xavier)

  • 1568

    Oda Nobunaga unifies much of Japan

  • Period: 1568 to

    the azuchi-monyama period

    The Azuchi Momoyama period of feudal Japan lasted from around 1574 AD to 1600 AD, and it was a time when society became unified under the daimyō Oda Nobunaga. It was Nobunaga, along with his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, that was responsible for unifying all provinces in Japan under the control of the central government.
  • Period: to

    tokugawa period

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in 1598 AD and a man named, Tokugawa Ieyasu, came to power. Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed as the shogun by the emperor and became the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan.