Timeline

  • 400s Yamato clan becomes central clan of Japan
  • Buddhism comes to Japan in 500
  • Shotoku comes to power 593
  • Japanese Drama begins 600s
  • Calligraphy begins 600s
  • Shotoku's reign ends in 622
  • Fujiwara clan comes to power in 800s
  • Fujiwara clans power falls
  • Zen Buddhism becomes more popular in 1100
  • Minamoto Yoritomo became the first Shogun in 1192
  • Drama called Noh develops in 1300
  • Oda Nobunaga began to reunite Japan in 1500s
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi conquered all of Japan in 1598
  • In the drama style called Kabuki comes about1600s
  • In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu was named shogun
  • From 1600-1850s Japan went into isolation
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