To use “A Case Study of Heian Japan Through Art,” you will need to print the scroll selections for analysis by students. Links to these prints are provided in the Heian Japan Online Image List. You ...

The city’s name means “Capital of Peace and Tranquility,” and the Heian period is usually remembered as having been an age of art, literature, and culture. During these years, Japanese developed a ...

There's nothing quite like Japan's Heian Period (794-1185). Four centuries of peace set it apart; set it outside history. We're in another dimension. The governing class was an aristocracy of culture.

A little knowledge of the customs of the Heian aristocracy is useful background for readers tackling Japan’s 1,000-year-old classic The Tale of Genji. One of the pleasures of reading Japanese ...

In considering the unchanging sentiments that underlie Japanese culture, the first thing that comes to mind is the Heian period (794–1185). This was a crucial period for the formulation of ...

What is it about Japan in the 11th century that interests you? Heian Japan was a period of considerable stability before things came apart; the age of the shoguns and warlords began at the end of ...

NARA--Some of the finest swords of Japan’s feudal age are now on show ... shrine’s museum showcases 30 blades forged between the Heian Period (794-1185) and the Edo Period (1603-1867).

Historically, Western husbands owned their wives and children. But in the Japanese Heian Age (794-1185), virginity was not valued but shunned,. Polygamy (among men who could afford it) was the law ...