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Horses are introduced into japanese fighting
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Buddhism arrives in Japan; becomes a powerful philosophy for rulers and warriors.
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Minamoto Yoritomo takes up arms against the Taira clan in The Gempei War. And establishes the Kamakura bakufu Heian era ends
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The samurai over rule the government in value in the Kamakura period
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The founder of the Kamakura government Minamoto Yorimoto was titled Shogun. The samurai were sworn to keep peace in Japan.
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The Mongols and Chinese set out to sea to invade the Japanese. A great storm destroyed the invasion fleet.
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50 days of fighting the Japanese were again saved by the storms. These storms were named kamikaze.
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the Kamakura shogunate lost control of the country to a rival samurai family, the Ashikaga family. The Ashikaga shogunate moved the capital back to Kyôto.
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The Onin War sees the decline of Shogun power and begins the Sengoku Jidai (The Age of the Country at War) which last 150 years.
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Portuguese guns are introduced into Japan.
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one of the powerful military families, the Tokugawa, was able to gain military control over all the local daimyo. The Tokugawa created a much stronger bureaucratic military government in Edo now named Tôkyô. It controlled — either directly or indirectly — all elements of society, such as the agrarian and commercial sectors.
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there were about one million people living in Edo. In time, the Edo merchants supplying the military became richer than the samurai, many of whom lived in poverty.
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When Commodore Perry came to Japan from the United States in 1853 seeking commercial relations, many groups in society were ready for changes in the old legal and economic systems.
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Japan's feudal period ended shortly thereafter with the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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Taira Masakado revolted and proclaimed himself "The New Emperor." Other samurai leaders exerted their influence across the land and changed the history of Japan.
