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A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...
2.1 Timeline. 3 Kenmu Restoration ... History of Japan; Daimyo; ... The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado. ...
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Japan .
The military history of Japan covers a vast time-period of over three millennia - from the Jōmon (c. 1000 BC) to the present day. After a long period of clan warfare until the 12th century, there followed feudal wars that culminated in military governments known as the Shogunate .
Thirty-Eight Year War (774–811) . Conquest by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (801); Last Conquest by Funya no Watamaro (811); Gangyō Rebellion (878) ja:元慶の乱; Kanbyō Silla pirate invasion (893) ja:新羅の入寇
The Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
The Sengoku period (戦国時代, 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.