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Period: 1603 BCE to 1867 BCE
Edo
In 1868 the capital city was moved to Eto, (now known as Tokyo). There was now a stable government under the shogunate. -
Period: 1573 BCE to 1603 BCE
Warring Stated
Oda Nobunaga was the son of a daimyo from a small domain on the coast of Honshu. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a soldier in Oda’s army and took over leadership after Oda’s ritual suicide. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a member of the council of five but he had his own ambitions. -
Period: 1336 BCE to 1573 BCE
Ashikaga
There was gradual breakdown of the Shogunates as Daimyo for for all the power during the age of the warring states. -
Period: 1185 BCE to 1333 BCE
Kamakura
The government was stable for another 150 years and the Mongols were defeated between 1274 and 1281. -
Period: 794 BCE to 1185 BCE
Heian
The Heian period was characterised by struggles for influence among the three most powerful daimyo clans, the Fujiwara, the Minamoto and the Taira. In 1068 the Emperor Go-Sanjo reduced their power by appointing members of the rival Minamoto clan to important government offices. Go-Sanjo was the first emperor for more than two hundred years whose mother had not been a member of the Fujiwara clan. -
Period: 400 BCE to 794 BCE
Nara
The Yamato rulers set up a central government based on a legal system and Chinese traditions in Nara. With support from other clan leaders, descendants of the Yamato became the first
recognised emperors of Japan.