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TIMELINE OF JAPAN 1232: The Joei Shikimoku code of law is declared
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1274: The Mongols of Kublai Khan try to invade t
Japan but are repelled by "kamikaze" e r

1300-1499

1050-1299 1333: Emperor Go-Daigo defeats the Kamakura
shogunate, restores imperial power and moves
1050: Rise of the military class (samurai)
the capital to Muromachi (near Kyoto)
1053: The Byodo-in temple (near Kyoto) is inaugu-
rated by emperor Fujiwara Yorimichi 1336: Ashikaga Takauji captures Kyoto and forces
Go-Daigo to move to a southern court
1068: Emperor Gosanjo overthrows the Fujiwara (Yoshino, south of Kyoto)
clan
1338: Takauji declares himself shogun, moves his
1087: Emperor Shirakawa abdicates and becomes capital into the Muromachi district of Kyoto
a Buddhist monk, the first of the "cloistered
emperors" (Insei Era) 1392: The southern court surrenders to the shogun
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the empire is uni-
1156: Taira Kiyomori defeats the Minamoto clan fied again
and seizes power, thereby ending the "insei"
era 1457: Ota Dokan built Edo Castle
1467: Civil war (Onin war) erupts in Japan and
1175: Shinran introduces the Jodo (Pure Land)
school of Buddhism Japan is split among feudal lords (daimyo)
1181: The famine kills hundreds of thousands of
people 1500-1599

1185: Taira is defeated (Gempei War) and Minamo- 1542: Firearms are introduced by a shipwrecked
to Yoritomo of the Hojo clan seizes power, Portuguese
becoming the first shogun of Japan, while the
emperor (or "mikado") becomes a figurehead 1549: The Catholic missionary Frances Xavier
reaches Japan
1191: Rinzai Zen Buddhism is introduced in Japan
by the monk Eisai of Kamakura and becomes 1568: The daimyo Oda Nobunaga enters Kyoto
popular among the samurai, the leading class and ends the civil war
in Japanese society 1570: The Archbishopric of Edo is established and
the first Japanese Jesuits are ordained
1192: The emperor appoints Yoritomo as "shogun"
(military leader) with residence in Kamakura 1573: The daimyo Oda Nobunaga overthrows the
Muromachi bakufu and extends his control
1199: Yoritomo dies
over most of Japan
1221: The Kamakura army defeats the imperial
army (Jokyu Disturbance), thereby asserting 1575: Nobunaga defeats the rival Takeda clan in
the supremacy of the Kamakura shogunate the battle of Nagashino by employing
(Hojo regents) over the emperor modern warfare
1582: Nobunaga is murdered and is succeeded by
1227: Soto Zen Buddhism is introduced in Japan
by the monk Dogen Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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