Claire and Karla Japan Timeline

By claireandkarla
  • Period: 400 to Mar 3, 1192

    Japan Timeline :)

  • 550

    Buddhist preists from korea vistied Japan (mid 500's)

  • 552

    Buddhism is introduced to Japan

  • Mar 3, 607

    Construction of the oldest surviving five-storied pagoda begins

  • Mar 3, 710

    Imperial government built a Chinese style capital on the site of the modern city of Nara

  • Mar 3, 1180

    There was a Civil war in Japan

  • Mar 3, 1185

    Heian period ended

  • Mar 3, 1192

    The first shogun is appionted

  • Mar 3, 1500

    Gagaku arived in Japan

  • Prince Shotoku rules Japan 593-628

  • Aristocrats laead a golden age of culture during the Heian period 794 - 1185

  • Hiragana writing develops 800-900

  • Cultural influeneces from the Asian mainland had been reaching Japan for hundre3ds of years.

  • The Japanese invented kana (borrowed letters)

  • Heian period started

  • Emporer Kammu decieded to move his capital away from Nara

  • Fujiwara started to lead Japan