Medival Japan

  • 552

    Mahayana arrived in Japan

  • 552

    Buddism is introuduced to Japan

  • Mar 2, 604

    Prince Shotoku issued a set of guidelines called the Seventeeen Artical

  • Mar 3, 607

    Construction of the oldest surviving five-storied pagoda begins

  • Mar 2, 645

    the future emperor Techi created the Taika Reforms

  • Mar 3, 710

    the imperial goverment built a Chinese-style capital on the modern city of Nara

  • Mar 3, 1180

    there was civil war in Japan

  • Mar 3, 1192

    The first shogun is appointed

  • a young man named Prince Shotoku came to powerin Japan

  • the emperor Kammu decided to move his capital away from Nara

  • the Fujiwara married many of their young daughters into the royal family

  • the empperor stopped work on the city

  • Prince Shotoku beggins to rule Japan

  • Prince Shotoku ends ruleing Japan

  • Hiragana writing beggins

  • Hiragana writing ends

  • Aristocrats lead a golden age culture during the heian period