Jomon period ca. 8000-300 BC
Yayoi period ca. 300 BC- AD 300
Tomb period ca 300-552
Age of Reform 552-710
-Asuka epoch
-Kakuho epoch
Nara period 710-784
-Tempyo epoch (mid eighth century)
Heian period 794- 1185
-Jogan epoch (mid to late ninth cuntury)
-Fujiwara epoch (tenth century to 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 (1675-1725)
-Bunka-Bunsei epoch (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries)
Meiji period 1868- 1911
Taisho period 1912-1925
Showa period 1926-
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