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Historical Periods of Japan
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Prehistoric Period
Jomon Period ca.11,000 BCE-300 BCE
Yayoi Period ca.300 BCE-300 CE
Kofun (Yamato) Period ca.300-592 CE
Early Historical Period
Asuka/Nara Period 592 BCE-794
Asuka 592-710 CE
Nara 710-794
Heian Period 794-1185
Fujiwara 858-1160
Taira 1160-1185
Medieval Period
Kamakura Period 1185-1333
Namboku 1334-1392
Muromachi Period 1392-1573
Ashikaga 1338-1573
Sengoku 1467-1600
Early Modern Period
Momoyama Period 1568-1600
Edo (Tokugawa) 1600-1868
Early-Edo
- Kan’ei 1624-44
- Meiriki 1655-58
- Manji 1658-61
- Kanbun 1661-73
- Enpo 1673-81
- Tenna 1681-84
- Jokyo 1684-88
Mid-Edo
- Genroku 1688-1704
- Shotoku 1711-1715
- Kyoho 1716-1736
- Horeki 1751-1764
- Meiwa 1764-1772
- An’ei 1772-1781
- Tenmei 1781-1789
Late-Edo
- Kansei 1789-1801
- Bunka 1804-1818
- Tenpo 1830-1844
Geometric Period (ca. 900-700 BCE)
ca. 900-850 Early Geometric vase-painting: less black, more space, more circles
ca. 850-760 Middle Geometric vase-painting: meander patterns, pyxides & horse-handles
ca. 760-700 Late Geometric vase-painting: free use of human figures and animals, Dipylon amphorae
Orientalizing Period (ca. 725-650 BCE)
Proto-Corinthian pottery & Proto-Attic pottery (ca.710-610 BCE)
Black-figure starts in Corinth ca. 720, flourishes in Athens (Attic) by 600
Small metal objects – griffin heads (protomes), cauldrons, tripods, animals, etc
Archaic Period (ca. 650-480 BCE)
Early Archaic (ca.650-580 BCE)
Middle Archaic (ca. 580-535 BCE)
Late Archaic (ca. 535-480 BCE)
pottery: Corinthian style, Black-figure style in Athens , then Red-figure begins ca.520
sculpture: kouroi & korai
Classical Period
Early Classical/Severe (ca. 480-450 BCE)
High Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
Late Classical/4th century (ca. 400-330 BCE)
Periklean Building Program on the Akropolis
449-444 - Hephaisteion
447-438/432 - Parthenon (metopes, 447-443; frieze, 442-438; pediments, 438-432, dedicated 438)
437-432 - Propylaia by Mnesikles
427-424 - Temple of Athena Nike (balustrade from 409)
421/0, 409-406 - Erechtheion
Hellenistic Period
Early Hellenistic (ca.330-220 BCE)
High Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)
Late Hellenistic (c. 150- 31 BCE)
228 Dying Gaul & Wife, Galatian monument by Attalos I
159-138 Stoa of Attalos II, Athens (reconstructed AD 1952)
150-125 Altar of Zeus, Pergamum
Roman Period begins at different times throughout the Mediterranean.
