Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 ...
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.
e. The Sengoku period, also known as Sengoku Jidai ( Japanese: 戦国時代, Hepburn: Sengoku Jidai, lit. 'Warring States period'), is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or Meiō incident (1493) is ...
The Meiji Restoration ( Japanese: 明治維新, romanized : Meiji Ishin ), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御維新, Goisshin), and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
The term "Asuka period" was first used to describe a period in the history of Japanese fine-arts and architecture. It was proposed by fine-arts scholars Sekino Tadasu (関野貞) and Okakura Kakuzō around 1900. Sekino dated the Asuka period as ending with the Taika Reform of 646. Okakura, however, saw it as ending with the transfer of the ...
The Kojiki (古事記, "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi [1] or Furukotobumi, [2] [a] is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 [3] concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami (神), and the Japanese imperial line.
The Great Fire of Meireki (明暦の大火, Meireki no taika), also known as the Great Furisode Fire, destroyed 60–70% of Edo (now Tokyo ), the then de facto capital city of Japan, on 2 March 1657, [ 1] the third year of the Meireki Imperial era. The fire lasted for three days and, in combination with a severe blizzard that quickly followed ...