Early years -- Advent and assimilation of chinese civilization -- Heian period: the age of court aristocracy -- Kamakura period: the triumph of the samurai -- Ashikaga period: the emergence of the daimyo -- Restoration of order -- Early tokugawa period -- Intellectual and cultural developments in tokugawa japan -- Late tokugawa period -- Fall of the tokugawa bakufu

1. Japan -- History -- To 1868