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Samurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life.
This book of Japanese history traces the story of a unique historical phenomenon: a period of 700 yearsequivalent to the entire stretch of Western history between the reigns of the Crusader king Richard the Lionhearted and of Queen Victoria at the height of the British Empireduring which an enclosed civilization was dominated by a single warrior caste.
The historical narrative of samurai history is supported by explanations of samurai armor, weapons, fortifications, tactics, and customs, and illustrated with nearly 800 fascinating color photographs, maps, and sketches, including ancient scroll paintings and surviving suits of armor preserved for centuries in Japanese shrines.
From the 12th to the 19th centuries the history of Japan was effectively the history of the samuraithe class of professional fighting men. At first they were no more than lowly soldiery employed by the court aristocracy of Kyoto, but the growing power of the provincial warrior clans soon enabled them to brush aside the executive power of the imperial court and to form their own parallel military government. Though individual dynasties came and went in cycles of vigor and decadence, the dominance of the samurai as a class proved uniquely resilient.

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CHRONOLOGY
The dates are given as A.D.

792 Nara government abolishes provincial corps and founds kondeisei system.

Early Heian Period

794 Kanmu Emperor moves court to Kyoto.

935 Taira Masakado kills his uncle Kunika and seizes power in Kanto.
Fujiwara Sumitomo rebels in Kyushu.

940 Masakado killed in battle.

1028 Taira Tadatsune rebels in Kanto.

1031 Minamoto Yorinobu puts down Tadatsunes revolt. 1035 Conflict between the warrior monks of Enjo and Enryaku temples.

1036 Conflict between the Todai and Kofuku temples.

1051 Abe family in Mutsu revolts against imperial courtthe start of the Zenkunen-no-eki, or Nine Years War.

1056 Minamoto Yoriyoshi appointed shogun to pacify Mutsu.

1062 Minamoto Yoshiie finally crushes Abe revolt.

1083 Yoshiie intervenes in internal feuding of Kiwohara family in Dewa.

1086 Former emperor Shirakawa opens In (cloistered office) at imperial court.

1091 Minamoto Yoshiie refused entry to Kyoto with his forces.

1095 Hokumen-no bushi appointed to guard In .

1129 Taira Tadamori suppresses pirates of Inland Sea.

Late Heian Period

1156 Hogen insurrection in Kyoto put down.

1159 The Heishi acquire military supremacy over the Minamoto family.

1167 Taira Kiyomori appointed daijodaijin (court prime minister).

1180 Minamoto Yoritomo and Kiso Yoshinaka rise against the Heishi; beginning of the Genpei War.
Yoritomo founds monchujo (financial court) as departments of bakufu in Kamakura.

1183 Kiso Yoshinaka defeats Heishi and enters Kyoto.

1184 Minamoto Yoshitsune defeats the Heishi at Ichinotani.
Minamoto Yoritomo founds kumonjo (secretariat).

1185 Taira family perish in sea battle of Dan-no-ura.

Kamakura Period

1192 Minamoto Yoritomo appointed as shogun.

1202 Yoriie becomes second shogun.

1203 Hojo Tokimasa assassinates Yoriie at Shuzen temple.

1204 Minamoto Sanetomo became third shogun.

1205 Hojo Tokimasa becomes regent.

1219 Assassination of Sanetomo ends Minamoto Yoritomos blood-line.

1221 Retired emperor Go-Tobas plot against Kamakura bakufu fails.

1232 Regent Hojo Yasutoki proclaims gosei baishi kimoku (samurai code).

1268 Envoys from Kublai Khan arrives at Dazaifu in Kyushu.

1274 Yuan/Mongol army lands in Kyushu and is repulsed ( Bunei-no-Eki ).

1281 Yuan/Mongol armys second invasion fails ( Kouanno-Eki ).

1297 Bakufu decrees cancellation of debts to aid impoverished provincial samurai.

1321 Go-Daigo Emperor abolishes In office and governs by himself.

1331 Go-Daigo Emperor raises army to destroy Kamakura bakufu.

1333 Fall of Kamakura bakufu.

1334 New imperial government established ( Kenmu-noshinsei ).

1335 Ashikaga Takauji revolts against new government.

Muromachi Period

1336 Kusunoki Masashige defeats Takauji who flees to Kyushu. Takauji strikes back, defeats Masashige at Minatogawa. Takauji establishes bakufu in Kyoto and sets Komyo on throne, beginning Nanbokuchoage of rival courts in Kyoto and Yoshino.

1338 Ashikaga Takauji appointed shogun.

1368 Ashikaga Yoshimitsu becomes third shogun.

1378 Yoshimitsu moves bakufu to Muromachi in Kyoto. 1392 Two rival courts integrated by Yoshimitsu.

1402 Relations established between Yoshimitsu and Ming Chinese emperor.

1428 First ikki revolt by disaffected poorer classes. 1429 Ashikaga Yoshinori becomes shogun.

1441 Akamatsu Yoshisuke assassinates Yoshinori.

1457 Ota Dokan constructs Edo Castle in Tokyo.

1467 Beginning of Onin War in Kyoto.

1471 Rennyo opens halls for Buddhist sect Jodo-shin-shu or Ikko-shu .

1477 End of Onin War.

1485 Ikki seize control in Yamashiro.

1488 Ikki rising in Kaga.

1495 Hojo Soun takes Odawara and seizes power in Kanto region.

1496 Rennyo starts building Ishiyama Honganji temple at Osaka.

1504 Tokusei-ikki riots in Kyoto demanding revocation of debt.

1531 Ikko-ikki forces defeat warlord Asakura Norikage.

1543 Portuguese bring firearms to Japan.

1549 St. Francis Xaviers Christian mission to Nagasaki.

1553 Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin fight first battle at Kawanakajima.

1555 The Mori destroy the Sue family.

1560 Oda Nobunaga kills Imagawa Yoshimoto at battle of Okehazama.

1563 Ikko-ikki in Mikawa.

1568 Oda Nobunaga enters Kyoto with shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

1570 Nobunaga defeats Asai and Asakura families at Anegawa.

1571 Nobunaga attacks Ikko-ikki in Nagashima; and destroys Enryaku temple.

1572 Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu at Mikatagahara.

1573 Fall of the Muromachi bakufu.

1575 Oda/Tokugawa allied army defeats Takeda Katsuyori at Nagashino.

1576 Nobunaga starts building Azuchi Castle.

Momoyama Period

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