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Eras in Japanese History
Jomon
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10,000-300B.C.
Stone age hunters/gatherers
Pottery rope patterned
Sun Goddess = Amaterasu Omikami
People believe 600B.C. Jimmu (Devine
Warrior) founds Japanese Empire
Yayoi
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300B.C – 300A.D.
Rice, metalworking, potters wheel come
from China/Korea.
Yayoi is the place in Tokyo where wheelturned pottery found
Shinto oldest religion
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Kami = divine forces
Have human characteristics (loyalty, wisdom,
etc.)
100-300 A.D. Clans form political units
Kofun (Yamato)
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300A.D. – 645A.D.
Powerful clans = Unified states
Close contact with mainland Asia
Rulers buried in Kofun (tomb mounds)
Rulers claim descendents of A.materasu O.
= imperial dynasty (still in existence!)
Adopts Chinese writing,
Patterns govt. after China (Shotoku Tashi)
Buddhism and Confucian start
Asuka
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645A.D – 710A.D.
Taika no Kaishin (Taika Reforms)
strenthen emperor’s power
Aristocratic families created
Fujiwars no Kamatari strongest
Nara
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710A.D. – 794A.D.
New Captial in Nara modeled after China
Emperors Shinto, but make Buddhism
state religion
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believe Buddhism with bring peace and
protect the govt.
Buddhist monasteries gan political power
Heian
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794-1185
Nara’s Buddhist forces Imperial court to
move to Heiankyo (now Kyoto)
Kana invented (syllabary for writing
Japanese)
Murasaki Shikibu writes Tale of Genji
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World’s first Novel
Court declines in power
Bushi (warrior class) rise
Kamakura
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1185– 1333
Minamoto no Yoritomo establishes
military govt.
1192 Bushi become ruling class
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Yoritomo becomes seii taishogun
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Barbarian-subduing generalissimo
Emperor becomes figurehead
1274 & 1281 Kublai Khan invades Japan.
Repelled by kamikazi (divine winds).
Invasion weakens ruling military
governemtn
Muromach
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1333 – 1568
Muromachi district is base for new
Shogun Govt
Ashikaga Takauji new Shogun/practices
Zen
Ink paintings, Garden designing, Tea
ceremony (chanoyu) popular
1467 – 1568
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Ten year war (Onin War) destroys central
govt.
100 years Whole country at war (Sengoku
Jidai)
Firearms introduced
Christianity introduced
Azuchimo
m-oya
Ma
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1568-1600
Japan reunified by Oda Nobunaga
Foundation of modern japan laid by
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Wants to conquer Korea and China. Rest of
population say ENOUGH WAR!!!
Painting, huge designs, tea ceremony
flourish
Edo
(tokugaw
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1600-1868
Tokugawa Ieyasu new Shogun
Capital moved to Edo (Now Tokyo)
Age of peace/Isolation
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Outside trading in Nagasaki only
(Chinese/Dutch)
Christianity suppressed
Rigid social hierachy
Cities/Commerce flourish
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Kabuki/Bunraku spring up
Books published
Education increases
1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry
forces doors of Japan open