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