Japan Under the Shoguns

In the year 710, the first permanent Japanese capital was established in Nara
Most of Japanese society during this period was agricultural in nature and centered on villages
Most of the villagers followed a religion based on the worship of natural and ancestral spirits called kami.

The period is named after the capital city of Heian-kyō, or modern Kyōto
It is the period in Japanese history when Buddhism, Taoism and other Chinese influences were at their height

Officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shogun, Minamoto no Yoritomo
The heads of the government were the shoguns
Shogun was a military dictator in Japan
The Kamakura shogunate was a Japanese feudal military government

Muromachi bakufu was a dynasty originating from one of the plethora of Japanese daimyo
It was named for a district in Kyōto, where the first Ashikaga shogun, Takauji, established his administrative headquarters

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu
Was the last feudal Japanese military government