Japan under the Shoguns

By jlowrie
  • Period: Jul 17, 1180 to Jul 17, 1185

    Genpei War

    Genpei War
  • Period: Jul 17, 1185 to Jul 17, 1333

    Kamakura Period

    Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes shogun and puts japan under military control.
  • Jul 17, 1252

    Great Buddha

    Great Buddha statue is installed at Kamakura
  • Jul 17, 1274

    Mongol armies 1274&1281

    Unsuccessful attempts by Mongol armies to invade japan
  • Period: Jul 17, 1336 to Jul 17, 1573

    Muromachi period

    Japan under military control of the Ashikaga shoguns
  • Jul 17, 1397

    Kinkaku-ji

    Kinkaku-ji (golden pavilion) is built
  • Period: Jul 17, 1467 to Jul 17, 1477

    Onin War

    Onin War
  • Period: Jul 17, 1467 to Jul 17, 1568

    Warring States

    Age of the warring states.
  • Jul 17, 1549

    Christianity

    Francis Xavier introduces Christianity to Japan
  • Period: Jul 17, 1568 to

    Azuchi-Momoyama period

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi persecutes Christians. Increase in foreign trade.

  • Battle of Sekigahara

    Battle of Sekigahara
  • Period: to

    Edo Period

    Japan under miltary control of the Tokugawa shoguns. Christians persecuted. Shi-no-ko-sho organisation of soceity. Policy of national seclusion isolates Japan from the rest of the world. Edo is the largest city in the world
  • Period: to

    Genroku period

    Genroku period brings a flourishing of urban culture

  • Commodore Perry

    Commodore Perry first visits from the US.

  • Tokugawa shogunate

    The Tokugawa shogunate is overthrown. Emperor Meiji is restored to power.
  • Period: to

    Boshin War

  • Heian period 794-1185

    Noble Fuijwara family at the height of its power. Flowering of art and literature espcially poetry. Use of phonetic kana scripts. Rise of the samurai military class.

  • 798

    Kyomizu-dera is constucted
  • Period: to Jul 17, 1185

    Heian period

    Noble Fuijwara family at the height of its power. Flowering of art and literature espcially poetry. Use of phonetic kana scripts. Rise of the samurai military class.