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 1 Intro | Nâgaruna in the second century A.D. - was no isolated event.
 2 Range |       Dynasty (902 B.C. to 220 A.D.). - This empire was created
 3 Range |     Three Kingdoms (220 to 268 A.D.). - A territorial division.~
 4 Range |      Six Dynasties (268 to 618 A.D.). - The Three Kingdoms were
 5 Range |       Tâng Dynasty (618 to 907 A.D.). - This dynasty was the
 6 Range |      Sung Dynasty (960 to 1280 A.D.). - The centre of rule was
 7 Range |     Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1662 A.D.). - This was due to a popular
 8 Confuc|       dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 A.D.) succeeding the Shin, followed
 9 Confuc|      was killed~in the year 23 A.D. The story of his death is
10 Taoism|      Six Dynasties (265 to 618 A.D.) represents this freedom,
11 Asuka |        ASUKA PERIOD~550 TO 700 A.D. ~THE first Buddhist period
12 Asuka |   final removal to Nara in 710 A.D. And it signifies the influence
13 Asuka |           paragraph continues] A.D., when an ambassador of the
14 Asuka |      Buddhist scripture. In 64 A.D. Meitei, a Hâng Emperor,
15 Asuka |       Gettaes, returning in 67 A.D., with Buddhist images and
16 Asuka |        of Cochin China, in 159 A.D. These teachers translated
17 Asuka |        where he arrived in 401 A.D. He devoted himself to the
18 Asuka |      in wood by Rioken, in 217 A.D., must have been modelled
19 Asuka |  Dowager Ko constructed in 516 A.D. This place is still very
20 Asuka |   reign of Emperor Kimmei (552 A.D.), sent ambassadors bearing
21 Asuka |     and Doshin, arrived in 554 A.D. Chiso, a Southern Chinese,
22 Asuka |      Nagarjuna (second century A.D.) prove a masterly insight
23 Asuka |      of Prince Wumayado in 621 A.D., was the signal for universal
24 Asuka |    long reign, from 593 to 628 A.D., with Prince Wumayado as
25 Asuka |      of the Emperor Tenji, 667 A.D. This era in Japan is much
26 Asuka |       the Taira family in 1186 A.D. This age is characterised
27 Asuka |  Kamakura Period, 1186 to 1394 A.D. - From the rise of the Minamoto
28 Asuka |  Ashikaga Period, 1394 to 1587 A.D. - So called from a place
29 Asuka |     the Shogun Yoshimune, 1711 A.D.~The Later Tokugawa Period. -
30 Asuka |    fall of the Shogunate, 1867 A.D. This era sees the rise of
31 Nara  |     THE NARA PERIOD~700 TO 800 A.D.~A NEW era was to be born.
32 Nara  |       Tâng dynasty (618 to 907 A.D.), enriched by the fresh
33 Nara  |  dynasty in China (960 to 1280 A.D.), when Confucians, Taoists,
34 Heian |        HEIAN PERIOD~800 TO 900 A.D.~THE idea of the union of
35 Heian |      then again removed in 794 A.D. from Nara to Heian, or Kyoto -
36 Heian |     quest of such ideas in 741 A.D. This may be considered as
37 Fujiwa|    FUJIWARA PERIOD~900 TO 1200 A.D. ~THE Fujiwara period dates
38 Fujiwa|      of the Emperor Daigo, 898 A.D. With it begins a new development
39 Kamaku|      KAMAKURA PERIOD~1200-1400 A.D.~WITH the establishment of
40 Kamaku|    family at Kamakura, in 1186 A.D., begins a new phase of Japanese
41 Ashika|      ASHIKAGA PERIOD~1400-1600 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga period is
42 Ashika|        under the Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280), was an amalgamation
43 Ashika|     the Mongol dynasty of Gen (A.D. 1280-1368).~Japanese art
44 Ashika|      that country as a monk in A.D. 520. But it had first to
45 Toyoto|      TOKUGAWA PERIOD~1600-1700 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga rule, weakened
46 Toyoto|  dignity in the empire in 1586 A.D., and to whose towering ambition
47 Tokuga|      TOKUGAWA PERIOD~1700-1850 A.D. ~THE Tokugawas, in their