Japanese Culture

Major Periods and Cultural Epochs of Japanese History

Major Periods and Cultural Epochs of Japanese History Jòmon period ca. 10,000–300 b.c. Yayoi period ca. 300 b.c.–a.d. 300 Tomb period ca. 300–5524 Age of Reform 552–7104 Asuka epoch (552–645) Hakuhò epoch (645–710) Nara period 710–7844 Tempyò epoch (mid-eighth century) Heian period 794–1185 Jògan epoch (mid- to late ninth century) Fujiwara epoch (tenth century to late eleventh century) Kamakura period 1185–1333 Kemmu Restoration 1333–1336 Muromachi (Ashikaga) period 1336–1573 Kitayama epoch (late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries) Higashiyama epoch (second half of the fifteenth century) Age of Unification 1568–1600 Azuchi-Momoyama epoch (1568–1600 or 1615) Namban epoch (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) Tokugawa (Edo) period 1600–1867 Genroku epoch (ca. 1675–1725) Bunka-Bunsei epoch (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) Meiji period 1868–1912 Taishò period 1912–1926 Shòwa period 1926–1989 Heisei period 1989–1989 ...