Medieval Japan timeline

  • Period: 1603 BCE to 1868 BCE

    Tokugawa shogunate

    Treaty with USA
    Russia request for access denied
    Closing of ports to foreign ships
  • Period: 1543 BCE to 1630 BCE

    Warring period

    Major period of castle building
  • Period: 1338 BCE to 1603 BCE

    Ashikaga shogunate

    First pertogeses traders
    Major period of castling building
    Kabuk, theatre
  • Period: 1185 BCE to 1338 BCE

    Kamakura bafuku

    First Mongal invasion
    Second mongal invasion
    Zen Buddhism introduces
  • Period: 794 BCE to 1156 BCE

    Heian

    First Japanese novels
  • Period: 710 BCE to 784 BCE

    Nara

    First poetry written in Japanese