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Yoritomo was the military leader became the Shogun of Bakufu, he authorize a military capital in Kamakura.
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Shofukuji was composed in 1195 by a monk named Eisai, the creator of the Zen.
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From the port of Masan in southern Korea. In Japan in 1274, the Mongols and their subjects attacked the Japanese.
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The second Yuan invasion was about to hit Japan. The Samurai got courage by praying to Hachiman for help.
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Takauji became shogun in Kyoto in 1336.Takauji did not support the Emperor and so betrayed Emperor Go-Daigo to become the most powerful figure in Japan. The emperor was only a figurehead.
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The first Portuguse traders arrived in Japan.
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Firearms were introduced to the Japanese by the Portuguse.
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The Saint Francis Xavier arrived in Japan from Spain. Francis spread the Christian message throughout Japan.
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Oda Nobunaga allowes Christian missionary work to start. Oda Nobunaga takes control of civil authority.
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Christian Daimyo sends samurai envoy to Vatican in Rome. Akechi tock over Japan and murdered the shogun.
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Toyotom Hideyoish prohibited Christianity and explled Jesuit missionaries from Japan as potentally revolting against the government.
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The first of two invasions of Korea took place in 1592.
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first offical persecution in Japan
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Because leyasu was scared that ideals of Christianity so he expelled all the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries, among them Joao Rodrigues.
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The Portuguse were banned from trading with Japan. Japanese people were not allowed to travel overseas of the death penelty was imposed.
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Foreign books were allowed back into Japan.
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Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Uraga in Tokyo Bay and asked that Japan open itself to foreign trade in 1853.