Glossary

The period of Tokugawa rule, subdivided in records into early, middle, later and final phases, and the period that appears most often in the date fields of architectural records.

The era from the move of the capital to Heian-kyo in 794 to the rise of the warrior government at Kamakura in the late twelfth century, between the Nara and Kamakura periods.

The era from the founding of the warrior government at Kamakura in the late twelfth century to the fall of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, between the Heian and Nanbokuchō periods.

The era of the Ashikaga shogunate in Kyoto, from the 1330s to the expulsion of the last shogun in 1573; its first six decades are often treated separately as the Nanbokuchō period.