Heian in a sentence

Heian nobles married — which is to say they acknowledged some limits to sexual freedom — but Heian marriage was such a vague, formless arrangement that virtues like fidelity, and vices like infidelity, seem hardly definable.

During Japan's Heian Period, roughly 1,000 years prior to the Taisho Period, during which the anime and manga are set, Muzan Kibutsuji was declared stillborn after his heart stopped beating multiple times inside his mother's womb.

It is believed that the Japanese started using Kaiware sprouts in the Heian period, but it was considered a “luxury” food, as each one was hand-planted.

She said: “The pieces I have submitted are concept art around the Heian period in medieval Japan.

The highlight of the event was the smooth performance of Jamal Williams with Heian Shodan.

Women have written much of Japan’s most significant fiction, from foundational Heian period works like ‘The Tale of Genji,’ through the proletarian movement in the 1920s, to the popular genre fiction of today.

Katakana has a long history, dating back to the Heian Period in the ninth century, when Buddhist monks developed the phonetic writing system from existing Chinese kanji characters as a form of shorthand.

A ritsuryo office was created for the queen-consort, the Kogogushiki; and this bureaucratic innovation continued into the Heian period.

Bowring (1996), xiv Heian Imperial court life was immensely fashionable, but also dissolute.

Bowring (2004), 79 Legacy Murasaki's reputation and influence have not diminished since her lifetime when she, with other Heian women writers, was instrumental in developing Japanese into a written language.

By the end of the Nara period, Naniwa's seaport roles had been gradually taken over by neighboring areas, but it remained a lively center of river, channel, and land transportation between Heian-kyō (Kyoto today) and other destinations.

Chinese calligraphic influence had been weakened after the Heian period ; this text was an example of the different way it was evolving in Japan.

During Japan's Heian period (794–1192 AD), the kimono became increasingly stylized, though one still wore a half-apron, called a mo, over it.

He created the ping'an forms ("heian" or "pinan" in Japanese) which are simplified kata for beginning students.

In the Heian period (8th–12th centuries) this was one of the important rites at the Imperial Court and had found its fixed place in the tama shizume festival in the eleventh month.

In the Heian period the lovers would exchange waka in the morning when lovers met at the woman's home.

In the later Heian period, one more shogun was appointed.

Japanese society during the Heian era was very sensitive to issues of "pollution," both spiritual and personal.

Just before the move to the Heian-kyō, the Emperor had abolished universal conscription in 8 and soon local, private militaries came into being.

Kyoto ( Heian-kyō ) was geopolitically a better seat of government; with good river access to the sea, it could be reached by land routes from the eastern provinces.