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	Heian Period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Heian period is considered the peak of the Japanese imperial court and noted for its art, especially poetry and literature.
		The Heian period is preceded by the Nara period and began in 794 after the movement of the capital of Japanese civilisation to Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto) by the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu.
		The early Heian period (794-967) continued Nara culture; the Heian capital was patterned on the Chinese capital at Chang'an, as was Nara, but on a larger scale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heian_Period (2520 words)

	Heian Jingu - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heian Jingū was built in 1895 for the 1100th anniversary of the establishment of Heiankyō (the old name of Kyoto).
		The former moved the capital to Heian, and the latter was the last before Emperor Meiji, who moved the capital to Tokyo.
		The Heian Jingū is the destination of the Jidai Matsuri, one of the three most important festivals of Kyoto.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Heian_Jingu (129 words)

	Heian Period Information - TextSheet.com
		The Heian period (平安時代) is the last division of classical Japanese history that runs from 794 to 1185 AD.
		The Heian period is preceded by the Nara period and began in 794 after the movement of the capital of Japanese civilisation to Kyoto by the 50th emperor Kammu.
		The lyrics of the modern Japanese national anthem, "Kimi Ga Yo," were written in the Heian period, as was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, accounted by many as the first novel.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heian_period.html (320 words)

	Japanese history: Nara, Heian Periods
		The monasteries quickly gained such strong political influence that, in order to protect the position of the emperor and central government, the capital was moved to Nagaoka in 784, and finally to Heian (Kyoto) in 794 where it should remain for over one thousand years.
		One characteristic of the Nara and Heian periods is a gradual decline of Chinese influence which, nevertheless, remained strong.
		Among the worst failures of the Taika reforms were the land and taxation reforms: High taxes resulted in the impoverishment of many farmers who then had to sell their properties and became tenants of larger land owners.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2132.html (641 words)

	The Long-Sleeved People
		The early Heian Period (specifically 894) saw the end of diplomatic relations with China and the growth of a native style in art, architecture and writing.
		Because the Heian court was so taken with sensitivity to art and love of subtle beauty, much detail is given to wardrobe: colours, combinations, and fabric textures.
		The worst fire of the Heian Period occurred in 1177 and is refered to as “Big Brother” to distiguish it from the numerous smaller fires that proceeded and followed it.
	www.reconstructinghistory.com /japanese/HeianDress.htm (1238 words)

	Heian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heian Jingu Shrine One of Japan's most historical shrines, with overview, access map,history and festivals, and its gardens.
		The Costume Museum Contains Japanese costumes from all eras with illustrated samples from the Heian period.
		Heian Kyou Gagaku group at Risshou University in Tokyo.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Heian.html (194 words)

	Shotokan Karate \| Kata \| Heian Shodan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heian Shodan is the first of the five basic Shotokan kata developed by Itosu Yasutsune (one of two of Funakoshi Gichin's main instructors).
		The Heian kata were intended to be taught to beginners as the introduction to all other Shotokan kata.
		Heian means "peaceful mind." Heian Shodan as a whole means "first degree of peaceful mind." It is related to the advanced kata Jion.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/shotokan/heianshodan.html (171 words)

	History and Government>
		The Heian period (794-1192) was one of those amazing periods in Japanese history, equaled only by the later Tokugawa period in pre-modern Japan, in which an unprecedented peace and security passed over the land under the powerful rule of the Heian dynasty.
		Heian government solidified the reforms of the late Yamoto and Nara periods.
		In the late Heian period, private families began to accrue vast amounts of property (shoen) and began to support large standing armies, mainly because the Heian government began to rely more on these private armies than on their own weak forces.
	www.angelfire.com /rpg/nippon/history.html (5971 words)

	Heian Period (794-1185A.D.)
		Heian period began with the transfer of the capital to Kyoto and came to the end when the Kamakura Shogun ate was established by Yoritomo Minamoto.
		The center of politics was in Heian for 400 years, and each emperor had a strong authority to controle the country and people in earlier time.
		Heian period also had a strong emperor's autholity in eralier period and a politics controlled by the peerage in middle and later period like other period usually had.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/heian/heian-p.htm (2214 words)

	Heian Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heian period is considered the of the Japanese imperial court and noted for its art and especially in poetry and literature.
		The Heian period is preceded by the Nara period and began in 794 after the of the capital of Japanese civilisation to Kyoto by the 50th emperor Kammu.
		While on one hand the Heian period indeed an unusually long period of peace can also be argued that the period Japan economically and led to poverty for but a tiny few of its inhabitants.
	www.freeglossary.com /Heian_period (782 words)

	Heian period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Women and Women's Communities in Ancient Japan Summarizes the role and place of women in Japanese society, in pre-Nara Period, Nara Period, and Heian Period Japan.
		The Tale of Murasaki Gives descriptions of chararacters in the famous Japanese story, as well as life in Heian Japan including period cosmetics, fashion, food, music, and religion.
		Travel Vantage History of Peru by period: the Middle or Chavin period, the Regional Period and Wari Empire, the Period of Regional States, the Inca Empire and the Conquest.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Heian_period.html (468 words)

	Japan Reference - Kyoto Guide - Heian-jingu Shrine 平安神宮 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heian Jingu is a 2/3 scale reconstitution of the Heian-period Imperial Palace.
		Heian Jingu is 10min walk from Higashi-yama station (Tozai Subway line) or 15min walk from Sanjo station.
		Admission to the shrine is free, although entry to the gardens is ￥600 (open 8:30am-5:30pm from 15 Mar to 31 Aug; until 4:30pm from 1 Nov to end of Feb; until 5pm the rest of the year).
	www.jref.com /practical/heian_jingu_shrine_kyoto.shtml (261 words)

	heian
		This was indicated by the ending of diplomatic relations and the founding of a new capital city - Heian (modern day Kyoto.) This city remained the imperial center for the next several centuries.
		Heian is also the name given to the developmental period in Japan between 800 - 1200 CE.
		During the Heian era, Japan went through a very important transitional period - moving away from strong links to the Asian mainland, modifying those elements that were borrowed from Korea and China, and reasserting fundamental Japanese traditions.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist151/heian.htm (1187 words)

	Japanese Women in the Heian Period (794-1185) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The matriarch ruled the roost, as it were, governing over all the other women in the household, and had her son's exclusive confidence.
		In the Heian period, many children were elevated to the role of Emperor.
		Although it was not the practice to teach one's daughter the Chinese classics, a woman of the Heian period was expected to know the one thousand classic Japanese verses by heart.
	www.reconstructinghistory.com /japanese/HEIANintro.html (677 words)

	Japanese Architecture: Higashi temple, Kyoto
		The Heian Shrine, as it became known, celebrates the culture and architecture of the city's Heian-era past.
		The Heian Shrine is a 2/3 scale recreation of the Heian Hall of State, built on the site of the original.
		Today's Heian shrine bears little resemblance to its model, but like the city herself, the adaptation of the past to the modern age has proven immensely successful.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /kyoto/HEIAN.htm (304 words)

	WebMuseum: Heian Art
		The period is further divided into the early Heian and the late Heian, or Fujiwara, eras, the pivotal date being 894, the year imperial embassies to China were officially discontinued.
		The wooden image of Shaka, the "historic" Buddha (early 9th century), enshrined in a secondary building at the Muro-ji, is typical of the early Heian sculpture, with its ponderous body, covered by thick drapery folds carved in the hompa-shiki (rolling-wave) style, and its austere, withdrawn facial expression.
		In the last century of the Heian period, the horizontal, illustrated narrative handscroll, the emaki, came to the fore.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/tl/japan/heian.html (760 words)

	Heian Japan
		What happened instead was that power accumulated under a single family, the Fujiwara, who managed to skillfully manipulate and hold onto their power in the face of changes and rivalry for over three centuries.
		At the top of the official hierarchy was the Tenno, or "Divine Emperor." The Emperor was both Confucian and Shinto; he ruled by virtue of the Mandate of Heaven and by legitimate descent from the Shinto Sun Goddess, Amaterasu.
		Anything that had beauty revealed the truth of the Buddha; as a result, the art of the Hiei monks made the religion profoundly popular at the Heian court and deeply influenced the development of Japanese culture that was being forged at that court.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/HEIAN.HTM (1549 words)

	Heroines: Heian Period (Women in World History Curriculum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heian ("Hey-on") Japan was the high point of Japanese aristocratic culture, a golden age of peace and harmony.
		The most important writers in the Heian period were women who wrote between 950 and 1050.
		The Heian was a good period for aristocratic women in other ways as well.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /Heian9.html (390 words)

	Heian Shogi - Early Shogi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The pieces in Heian Shogi therefore have very limited powers of movement and the game is much slower and less interesting than later variants.
		Heian Shogi is therefore primarily of historical interest only.
		The Heian 'Knight' has the same move as the equivalent piece in the Western game (ie: it may move one square orthogonally then one square diagonally), except that its move is limited to the forward direction only.
	www.chessvariants.com /shogivariants.dir/heian.html (1472 words)

	Three Heian Women
		Japan clearly had the higher civilization in the late Ancient, or Heian, period (794 to 1185), perhaps the highest civilization in the world (only China could challenge it), and the higher literary achievement until at least the time of Chaucer (1343 to 1400).
		Heian literature was much more secular, written by and for the court elite--some of the best by a few well-placed women of rare genius.
		The Heian court was one of the most cultivated that ever existed anywhere in the world.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/heian.html (2931 words)

	Ataru SKC - Heian Nidan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is believed that Master Itosu created the Heian kata from another kata he had learned from a Chinese karate exponent living in Okinawa.
		Elements of the five Heian kata also resemble parts of the kata Kanku Dai, Tekki Shodan and Bassai Dai and it is possible that Sensei Itosu created them from these which would have been too difficult to teach to beginners.
		Sensei Funakoshi was responsible for changing the names of the kata from Pinan to Heian in the early 1900s to faciltate the introduction of karate from Okinawa to Japan.
	www.ataru-karate.co.uk /kata/heian2.htm (213 words)

	I Am The Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heian court ladies spent their “public” time hidden from mixed company, with only their hems and sleeves visible as they sat upon the floor behind blinds and screens.
		By the Heian period, finely crafted rice paper was glued to bamboo ribs to create the fan we are familiar with.
		Heian ladies plucked out their natural eyebrows, then painted new ones higher on their foreheads.
	www.geocities.com /wodeford/i_am_the_display.htm (2240 words)

	Astronomy Sites in Kyoto
		The original Heian Kyo (Heian Capital) was built in 794 upon the capital's relocation to Kyoto.
		Heian Shrine, a reconstruction of the building complex which housed the Great Hall of State in the ancient Dai Dairi is located to the East of the original location.
		At the northern extremity of Heian Shrine, and immediately in front of the visitor as he or she enters the Otemon Gate, is the main building of the Reconstructed Heian Shrine, the Great Hall of State.
	www2.gol.com /users/stever/kyoto.htm (1512 words)

	Martial Arts Planet - Heian Shodan - what's that knifehand move?
		Heian vs. Pinan is sinply the Okinawan vs. Japanese pronounciation of the same kanji (character).
		Either way it means "peace." The Heian or Pinan kata show up in many different styles of karate with minor differences in stances and some other subtle differences.
		The knifehand at the end of heian 1 is entered into by switching to knifehand from the position you are at the end of the three punches, chambering, and swinging round 270 degrees to kokutso dachi facing the other way but diagonally.
	www.martialartsplanet.com /forums/showthread.php?t=12567 (883 words)

	The Juni-hito Styles of Heian Era Japan
		The Heian era of Japan encompasses approximate years of 792-1192 of the Common Era.
		In modern applications of this costume, a two-piece cotton or silk garment is worn next to the skin to help keep the outer layers, which are often vintage, away from perspiration or make-up.
		Heian era women usually wore their hair long and straight down their backs either loose or bound into a low ponytail.
	www.clotheslinejournal.com /heian.html (1958 words)

	The Japanese Garden
		These ponds were the major elements of gardens created to the south of the sprawling residences of the nobility, and provided not only scenery to be enjoyed from the pavilions of those villas, but also the venue for elaborate parties, dramatic spectacles, poetry contests and general recreation.
		The nature and significance of the Heian gardens are reflected in a number of important texts of the period, including Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji), Murasaki Shikibu Niki (The Diary of Lady Murasaki), Kasuga Gongen Reigen Ki (The Kasuga Gongen Miracles), and Sakuteiki (The Classic of Garden Making).
		The first three of these works were the subjects of illustrated handscrolls produced in the Heian and Kamakura Periods, and the illustrations give some idea of the nature of the pond gardens and the courtyard gardens that figure so prominently in the texts.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /zen/index.shtml?origin (1658 words)

	Heian_Nidan_e
		The connection with Kanku Dai is evident in the first half of the kata, seeming that Heian Nidan reproduces it almost exactly.
		Heian Nidan can be simple and easy of understanding in its basic content, but inside him they can be some maneuvers and techniques very effective.
		Heian Nidan could be considered the kata of Water of the five elements of Musashi.
	www.karateskifargentina.com.ar /Heian_Nidan_e.htm (352 words)

	.:jessdoor.com:. JAPAN::Photos::Kyoto::Heian Shrine
		Heian shrine is named after the Heian era in Japan.
		The shrine itself was built in the Meiji era (1867-1911) to comemorate the Heian era, and is supposed to have been constructed in the style of buildings from that era.
		The tori is painted a bright reddish-orange, which is one of the colors used on the rest of the Heian shrine as well.
	www.jessdoor.com /japan/heian_shrine.html (1234 words)

	Kyoto Travel: Heian Shrine
		Heian Shrine was built in 1895 on the occasion of the 1,100th anniversary of the Heian Capital foundation.
		The shrine buildings are a partial replica of the Imperial Palace of the Heian Period.
		Heian Shrine can be reached by bus number 5 or 100 from Kyoto Station.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e3904.html (141 words)

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