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t. e. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [ 1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
The 1586 Tenshō earthquake strikes central Honshu, killing thousands. 1587. Toyotomi Hideyoshi launches the Kyūshū campaign . 1590. 4 August. Toyotomi Hideyoshi prevails over the Late Hōjō clan in the siege of Odawara in the Kantō region, completing the re-unification of Japan. 1591. 8 October.
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
t. e. The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. [ 1] It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto ). Heian (平安) means 'peace' in Japanese. It is a period in Japanese history ...
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [ 1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
The Empire of Japan, [ c] also referred to as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [ d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947. [ 8] From 29 August 1910 until 2 September 1945, it administered the naichi (the Japanese archipelago, Kuril ...
t. e. Shogun ( English: / ˈʃoʊɡʌn / SHOH-gun; [ 1] Japanese: 将軍, romanized : shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, " Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), [ 2] was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to ...
t. e. The historiography of Japan ( 日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan . The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE. The earliest extant work is the ...