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 ...

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 buildings and gardens were designed to evoke the Heian period (794-1185), when Kyoto’s aesthetic began to flourish. The main building is a scaled-down replica of the first Imperial Palace ...