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Below is the periodization of Japanese history as it appears in the opening section of the book War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan.
Here is a table that did not make it into the final book but is reproduced here as supplementary materials. It lists categories of war over the course of Japanese history: Types of War in Japan (Jan 2022 ver)
pre-ca. 300 BC: Jomon period (early hunter-gatherer period)
660 BC: Mythical ascension of Emperor Jimmu
ca. 300 BC-300AD: Yayoi period (introduction of rice culture)
250-538: Kofun period (burial mounds of kings)
538-710: Asuka period
710-814: Nara period (capital in Nara)
794-1185: Heian period (capital in Kyoto)
1264-1308: War between the Mongol Empire and the Ainu
1185-1333: Kamakura period (capital in Kamakura)
1333-1336: Kemmu restoration (overthrow of Kamakura government)
1336-1573: Ashikaga (Muromachi) period (government returns to Kyoto)
1337-1392: Northern and Southern Courts period (competing imperial courts)
By the fifteenth century: Wajin (Japanese) presence established in Yaunmosir
1429: Unification of the Ryukyu Kingdom (Shō Dynasty)
1467-1590: Sengoku period (Warring States period)
1573-1603: Azuchi-Momoyama period (culmination of Japan’s unification)
1573-1868: Early Modern period (from Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo periods)
1603-1868: Edo period (period of the Tokugawa shogunate)
1604-1799, 1821-1855: Matsumae clan trade monopoly in Ezo / Yaunmosir
1609: Satsuma invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom
1853-1868: Bakumatsu period (end of the shogunate)
1799-1821, 1855-1869: Tokugawa shogunate direct rule of Ezo
1868-1912: Meiji period (reign of Emperor Meiji)
1869: Annexation of Hokkaido
1879: Annexation of Okinawa (Ryukyu Disposition)
1912-1926: Taisho period (reign of Emperor Taisho)
1926-1989: Showa period (reign of Emperor Hirohito)
1945- : Postwar era
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