YOKOHAMA--Academics here are busy translating Japan's oldest medical records dating from the Heian Period (794-1185 ... collection were commissioned by Emperor Kanmu (737-806) to provide a ...

From the mid-Heian period, the palace suffered several fires and other disasters. During reconstructions, emperors and some of the office functions resided outside the palace. This, along with the ...

Sugawara Michizane (845-903) was a brilliant Chinese literary scholar and statesman during Japan's Heian period (794-1185) who rose quickly to high courtly rank but was unjustly exiled after an ...

It was during the Heian period (794–1185), however ... the Fukuhara mansion and the ill-fated child emperor Antoku, dressed in red. On the right screen we see the retreating sixteen-year-old Taira ...

Within decades of Emperor Daigo's death, the Fujiwara had absolute control ... producing literary scholars including Fujiwara no Shunzei and Fujiwara no Teika. The Fujiwara-dominated Heian period ...

The critically acclaimed new FX/Hulu historical epic Shōgun follows Lord Toranaga who is based on a real-life Japanese ...

A prominent member of the Taira clan of samurai, Tadamori served the retired Heian-period Emperor Shirakawa (1053-1129; r. 1073-1087). According to legend, one rainy night the emperor set out to visit ...

The art takes us back in time to Japan's Heian era, and Sukuna is in top form so far as jujutsu society is concerned. With ...

a practice that the aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185) heartily adopted as part of their celebrations. By the Edo period (1603–1868), the cosmological aspects of chōyō and focus on ...