| 1 | 時代 (じだい) |
| (n-t) period |
| 2 | 代官 (だいかん) |
| (n) Edo-period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff) |
| 3 | 江戸時代 (えどじだい) |
| (n) Edo period (1603-1868 CE) |
| 4 | 新時代 (しんじだい) |
| (n) new period |
| 5 | 奈良時代 (ならじだい) |
| (n) Nara period (710-794 CE) |
| 6 | 武家時代 (ぶけじだい) |
| (n) Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE) |
| 7 | 飛鳥時代 (あすかじだい) |
| (n) Asuka period (550-710 CE) |
| 8 | 安土時代 (あづちじだい) |
| (n) Azuchi period (first half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1582 CE) |
| 9 | 原史時代 (げんしじだい) |
| (n) protohistory (the period between prehistory and history) |
| 10 | 古典時代 (こてんじだい) |
| (n) the classical period |
| 11 | 古墳時代 (こふんじだい) |
| (n) Tumulus period (of Japanese history) |
| 12 | 推古時代 (すいこじだい) |
| (n) Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE) |
| 13 | 前史時代 (ぜんしじだい) |
| (n) prehistoric period |
| 14 | 田沼時代 (たぬまじだい) |
| (n) Tanuma period (1767-1786 CE) |
| 15 | 銅器時代 (どうきじだい) |
| (n) Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools) |
| 16 | 無土器時代 (むどきじだい) |
| (n) (obsc) preceramic period |
| 17 | 明治時代 (めいじじだい) |
| (n) Meiji period (1868-1912) |
| 18 | 大和時代 (やまとじだい) |
| (n) Yamato period (300-550 CE) |
| 19 | 弥生時代 (やよいじだい) |
| (n) Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-300 CE) |
| 20 | 吉野時代 (よしのじだい) |
| (n) (obsc) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) |
| 21 | 足利時代 (あしかがじだい) |
| (n) Ashikaga period (i.e. the Muromachi period, 1333-1573 CE) |
| 22 | 鎌倉時代 (かまくらじだい) |
| (n) Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE) |
| 23 | 桂園時代 (けいえんじだい) |
| (n) Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE) |
| 24 | 源平時代 (げんぺいじだい) |
| (n) Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE) |
| 25 | 三国時代 (さんごくじだい) |
| (n) (1) Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220-280 CE) |
| 26 | 昭和時代 (しょうわじだい) |
| (n) Showa period (1926-1989 CE) |
| 27 | 戦国時代 (せんごくじだい) |
| (n) (1) Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE) |
| 28 | 先土器時代 (せんどきじだい) |
| (n) preceramic period |
| 29 | 徳川時代 (とくがわじだい) |
| (n) Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1600-1867 CE) |
| 30 | 白鳳時代 (はくほうじだい) |
| (n) Hakuho period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE) |
| 31 | 藤原時代 (ふじわらじだい) |
| (n) Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE) |
| 32 | 平安時代 (へいあんじだい) |
| (n) Heian period (794-1185) |
| 33 | 平成時代 (へいせいじだい) |
| (n) Heisei period (1989-) |
| 34 | 封建時代 (ほうけんじだい) |
| (n) feudal period |
| 35 | 室町時代 (むろまちじだい) |
| (n) Muromachi period (1333-1573 CE) |
| 36 | 桃山時代 (ももやまじだい) |
| (n) Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600 CE) |
| 37 | アマルナ時代 (アマルナじだい) |
| (n) Amarna period (of Egyptian history) |
| 38 | 王朝時代 (おうちょうじだい) |
| (n) Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) |
| 39 | 大御所時代 (おおごしょじだい) |
| (n) Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843) |
| 40 | 旧幕時代 (きゅうばくじだい) |
| (n) the shogunate period |
| 41 | 織豊時代 (しょくほうじだい) |
| (n) Shokuho period (i.e. the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1568-1600 CE) |
| 42 | 貞観時代 (じょうがんじだい) |
| (n) Jougan period (of art history, 859-877 CE) |
| 43 | 縄文時代 (じょうもんじだい) |
| (n) the Jomon period |
| 44 | 大正時代 (たいしょうじだい) |
| (n) Taisho period (1912-1926 CE) |
| 45 | 天平時代 (てんぴょうじだい) |
| (n) Tempyo period (esp. used as a period of art history, 710-794 CE) |
| 46 | 東山時代 (ひがしやまじだい) |
| (n) Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi) |
| 47 | 律令時代 (りつりょうじだい) |
| (n) Ritsuryo period (mid 7th-10th centuries CE) |
| 48 | 江戸時代文学 (えどじだいぶんがく) |
| (n) Edo-period literature |
| 49 | 春秋時代 (しゅんじゅうじだい) |
| (n) Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE) |
| 50 | 吉野朝時代 (よしのちょうじだい) |
| (n) (obsc) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) |
| 51 | 安土桃山時代 (あずちももやまじだい) |
| (n) Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600 CE) |
| 52 | 正統カリフ時代 (せいとうカリフじだい) |
| (n) Rashidun period (the period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 CE) |
| 53 | 先縄文時代 (せんじょうもんじだい) |
| (n) (obsc) pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period) |
| 54 | 南北朝時代 (なんぼくちょうじだい) |
| (n) period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92) |
| 55 | 文化文政時代 (ぶんかぶんせいじだい) |
| (n) Bunka-Bunsei period (approx. 1804-1830 CE) |
| 56 | 金石併用時代 (きんせきへいようじだい) |
| (n) Chalcolithic period (i.e. the Copper Period) |
| 57 | 弘仁貞観時代 (こうにんじょうがんじだい) |
| (n) Kounin-Jougan period (of Japanese art history, approx. 794-894 CE) |
| 58 | 魏晋南北朝時代 (ぎしんなんぼくちょうじだい) |
| (n) Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties period (220-589 CE) |