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Japanese History

By the fryed guy
  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 794

    The Narra Period

    This is when the Yamato Clan was in power. This was the establishment of the imperial dynasty was. Around the fourth century CE, the Yamato clan established the first Japanese state in an area around Nara on the island of Honshu. The Yamato rulers set up a central government based on a legal system and Chinese traditions. With support from other clan leaders, descendants of the Yamato became the first recognised emperors of Japan.
  • Period: Jan 1, 794 to Jan 1, 1185

    The Henian Period

    The capital city was moved to Kyoto. In this time the fist shoguns were appointed. The samurai and the daimyo got more powerful. The rulers were emperors.In 794 the Emperor Kammu moved the imperial capital from Nara to Heian-kyo, now known as the city of Kyoto. The Heian period that followed lasted for almost 400 year and saw the flowering of the Classical period of Japanese history.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1185 to Dec 31, 1333

    Kamakura Period

    This was when the Kamakura shoguns were in power. They held a stable government for 150 years and defeated the mongols. In 1192 the emperor appointed the head of the
    Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, as shogun,
    to lead the Japanese armed forces. Yoritomo set
    up his government in the city of Kamakura, about
    50 kilometres south of modern-day Tokyo. The
    establishment of this shogunate was important because
    it saw real power pass from the emperor to the shogun.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1336 to Dec 31, 1573

    Ashikaga Period

    This is when the Ashikaga shoguns were in power. Gradual breakdown of shogunate as daimyo fought for power during the age of the warring states.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1573 to

    Warring states Period

    This was when Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu were in power. Breakdown of shogunate rule. Centralising of government under the ‘three great unifiers’. A chance to restore the rule of the nobles and the royal court came in 1333 when Emperor Go-Daigo resisted the military government. Samurai from the Ashikaga clan supported him and the Kamakura shogunate collapsed. However, other samurai were outraged at this challenge
    to their prestige and authority.
  • Period: to

    The Edo Period

    This is when the Tokugawa shoguns were in power. Capital moved to Edo (Tokyo). Stable government under the shogunate. Isolation from the rest of the world.The Tokugawa were very suspicious
    of foreigners who tried to change Japan’s traditions. Christianity was forbidden as an ‘un-Japanese’ religion, and Dutch, Korean and Chinese traders could operate only through the port of Nagasaki. Japanese citizens were also forbidden to travel overseas.