Heian

It is called the Heian epoch, the term "Heian-jo" (Castle of Peace) having been given to Kyoto soon after that city became the residence of the

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Her novels include two volumes of the Heian trilogy Love/War/Death: The Fox Woman and Fudoki.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period.

Captive Girls 2009

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period.

Vitro Nasu » 2009 » March 2009

Did you hear about the futuristic Shinto Scotland which models itself on the Japan of the Heian period?

Pruned 2008

Wheeled vehicles were restricted to court nobility from the Heian period on: a few thousand people in the Tokugawa period had the right to use ox-drawn carts not people-powered; the rest of the population did not, nor were goods transported that way.

Dutch Futurists 2009

"Nioi" is Japanese for "fragrance/odour/scent", but is also used to refer to a shading of colour due to different amounts of time in the same dye bath, often used to produce graduated shades of silk and cotton for layers of kimono in the Heian period.

seanan_mcguire: Shakespeare says... seanan_mcguire 2009

Takeda attracts apprentices for both spiritual and sporting reasons, and preserves a practice that it traces back almost 1,500 years, although Yoshikazu Kondo, a professor of Japanese history at Kanagawa University, says it wasn't until the Heian period (794-1185) that the first written mentions appear.

Time's Arrow 2009

The temple was originally built in the early years of the Heian period 794-1185, as a rural villa called "Uji-dono" for court noble Fujiwara no Michinaga.

Archive 2009-03-01 Michael James 2009

I would have loved to know how the family managed to produce a male heir for 26 generations or if some of the head daiymo in the past were adopted into the family, as was the tradition in the Heian period.

Lords of the Samurai 3: Samurais R Us sfmike 2009