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  Uses of Poetry in Heian Japan
The court life of Heian Japan from the tenth century into the eleventh century was rich with varied uses of poetry in the activities of the nobility. ....
(894 4 )

Heian Aristocrats in Japan
The purpose of this research is to examine the lives of Heian aristocrats in Japan during the tenth and eleventh centuries CE. The ....
(1936 8 )

The Heian period in Japanese history
.... Edward G. Seidensticker stats that the book describes "the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh" (Seidensticker ix). ....
(1616 6 )

Pre-modern Japan
.... culture. As Morris points out, the Heian era of Japan preserved many Tang Dynasty practices that have since been lost in China. City ....
(1819 7 )

Early Japanese Government
.... to Chinese influences, whereas the Kamakura was fully Japanese in tradition, influenced by the samurai and by the fact that Japan in the latter Heian had begun ....
(1510 6 )

Japanese Art
Contemporary values of Japan can be traced as far back as the 10th century, the Heian aristocratic period, marked by elegance, nature mysticism, and, perhaps ....
(1165 5 )

Tradition & Change in India, China, Japan
.... During the succeeding Heian era (794-1185), there was a reaction against Buddhism and Chinese influence, sand Japan began to develop its own forms of religion ....
(800 3 )

Legal History of Japan
.... Thus, Japanese civilization of the Heian period (roughly 500 1100 AD) was centered on .... But in Japan, the Chinese model of rule by scholar bureaucrats ("mandarins ....
(1266 5 )

The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, reveals much about the power relations prevailing in the Heian period of Japan. Although ....
(1591 6 )

The Occupation Forces and Reforms in Japan
.... 6. The ruling male elite was chosen and trained in the Heian period largely .... In the Tokugawa period, Japan was a feudal society, with the economic limitations ....
(1844 7 )

Origins of Buddhism in Japan
.... It was not until the later Heian period that Buddhism again came to emphasize .... Buddhism was at least a thousand years old when it entered Japan, emerging from ....
(3325 13 )

Two Sculptures of the Buddha
.... tall and is one of the first standing images of the Yakushi Buddha in Japan. .... Amida Nyorai, the Buddha of unlimited virtue, and is from the Late Heian period. ....
(2240 9 )

Budhist Approach to Salvation
.... Confucianism. Esoteric Buddhism is connected with the Heian period of Japan (794-1192), which just preceded the first shogunate. Despite ....
(2517 10 )

Women in Japanese Religion
.... Heian court declined, and warring Buddhist monks raided the capital. This was the era of emerging samurai feudalism such as would dominate the history of Japan ....
(2921 12 )

Poet Ono no Komachi
.... how each understands the role of female entertainers in the discursive construction of gender in Japan in the medieval period. During the Heian and Kamakura ....
(2523 10 )

Japanese Cultural Flowering
.... European or Euro-American experience" (Dower 2-3). Another says Japan's unique indigenous .... royalty and aristocracy, extending as far back as the Heian period of ....
(282 1 )

Women's Issues in Japanese History
.... World War II, which Yuki Tanaka discusses in some depth in Japan's Comfort Women .... public sphere, although women had continued to write since the Heian period" (p ....
(3177 13 )

Conflict in Values in South Korea
.... It has been noted that "liberation from Japan brought an occupying US force and exposure to vastly different cultural patterns .... Union City, CA: Heian, 1986. ....
(1607 6 )

Bridge of Dreams & Holy Man of Mt. Koya
.... been associated with features of culture that had a long-term provenance in Japan. .... cultural origin, but rather all the way back to the Heian aristocratic period ....
(7250 29 )

Search for Origins in Japanese Literature
.... been associated with features of culture that had a long-term provenance in Japan. .... cultural origin, but rather all the way back to the Heian aristocratic period ....
(7277 29 )

Rebuilding of the Ise Shrine
The shrine, which is the center of Shinto worship in Japan, is of major importance .... But, since the Heian period, it has generally been known by the popular name ....
(3204 13 )

Effects of Buddhism for Women in Medieval Period
.... a cult began to arise in Japan surrounding a text known in Japan as the .... Paul Groner ( ) writes, "By the late Heian period, ideas about pollution had become so ....
(3294 13 )

The naturalistic sculpture of Unkei
.... Unlike Heian sculptures of the Buddha, in which the grain of the wood and the smoothing of .... New York: McFarlane, Warde, McFarlane-Japan Society of New York, 1936 ....
(1864 7 )

 
 
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