The drapes and screens of the birth room were white ... rather than the 50 of the Heian period. But given the millennium that has passed since Murasaki Shikibu wrote her masterpiece, even Japanese ...

We look to doctors and scientists for cures. We would have seemed very strange to the Japanese of the Heian Period (794-1185). Healing divorced from Taoist lore and Buddhist prayer would have ...

Like many vegetables in Japan, gobō (burdock root) most likely arrived from China during the Heian Period (794-1185). It was originally consumed as an herb with its leaves steeped to make a tea ...

The ceremony is held to commemorate Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), a scholar, poet and politician in the Heian Period (794-1185). This year’s event marked the 60th since the tradition was ...

The Heian period is considered the peak of the Japanese aesthetic tradition ... Allow 30 minutes for the groups to create their posters. Post the posters around the room and let students examine them.

Murasaki Shikibu, the author of The Tale of Genji, and the powerful statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga were contemporaries of the Heian period (794–1185). In fictional contexts, the two are often ...

Held on May 15, this event features a parade of over 500 participants dressed in full Heian-period (794–1185) court attire. The procession begins at the Kyoto Imperial Palace and winds its way ...

Haruna Matsui, who served as this year's Aoi Matsuri Festival heroine "Saiodai," is seen on a palanquin departing the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward during the "Roto-no-gi" parade ...

Gion Festival is said to have started in the Heian period as a way of asking people to be spared from the plague. Still now, every 17th of July, a pre-festival procession of floats, called the ...