The Yamato state unified the Japanese archipelago under the imperial clan, absorbing Buddhism and Chinese administrative models from the continent via Korea, and is the ancestor of the continuous Japanese imperial institution.
The Yamato period transitioned into the Nara period in 710 CE when the imperial court moved to the newly constructed capital of Nara (Heijō-kyō), formalizing the centralized Japanese state under Chinese-influenced institutions.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Yamato State — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 · 550.
The six-volume Cambridge History of Japan provides authoritative scholarly treatment of each period from the Yamato state onward.
Era/regional: the classic narrative of early Japan, covering the rise of the Yamato court and the absorption of Buddhism and Chinese administration via Korea.