Japan Under the Shoguns

By NairR01
  • Period: 710 to 784

    Nara

  • 751

    First poetry written in Japanese

  • Period: 794 to 1156

    Heian (Kyoto)

  • 1000

    First Japanese novels

  • Period: 1185 to 1338

    Kamakura bafuku

  • 1200

    Zen Buddhism introduced

  • 1265

    First Mongol invasion

  • 1281

    Second Mongol invasion

  • Period: 1338 to

    Ashikaga shogunate

  • 1543

    First Portuguese traders

  • Period: 1543 to

    Warring period

  • 1567

    Major period of castle building

  • Kabuki theatre

  • Period: to

    Tokugawa shogunate

  • Himeji Castle finished

  • Closing of ports to foreign ships

  • Russian request for access denied

  • Treaty with USA

  • Meiji Restoration