Shogun Timeline
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Updated: 12 Nov 2017
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The First Capital of Japan is based in the city of Nara and is ruled by the imperial familyUnder Orders from emperor Kammu the capital of Japan is moved to the city of Heian-Kyo (modern day Kyoto) and remains the capital for the next 1000 yearsThe Minamoto Clan seizes power from the emperor. Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Shogun and establishes his own capitol in Kamkura Japan is ruled by shoguns for the next 700 yearsThe Mongol army launches an attack on Japan but fails after a typhoon destroys many of their shipsThe Mongol army launches a second and much bigger attack on Japan and once again must retreat after most of their forces are wiped out by a typhoonEmperor Go-Daigo overthrows the kamkura shogunate and takes back powerAshikaga Takauji seizes power from the emperor Go-Daigo and becomes the new shogunA period of civil war breaks out, it is known as the warring states period and is between two rival warlords and last for around 100 years.William Adams is the first English sailor and navigator to vist Japan and befriends him and later becomes a key advisor to himTokugawa Leyasu Becomes Shogun and establishes a base in the city of Edo (Tokyo)The Sakoku (locked country) policy is introduceda policy to reduce logging is introducedlogging in Japan has been reduced by 60 percent so Japan's forests can recoverThe Sakoku policy is liftedMatthew Perry arrives in Japan to convince Japan to open its borders to tradeThe last Shogun hands power back to the imperial familyPeriods
The Nara PeriodThe Heian periodThe Kamkura periodMuromachi periodAzuchi-Momoyama periodTokugawa (or Edo) period
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