Heian period

Halperin’s Out of the Cloister Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China has a nice classification and analysis of literati’s opinions on Buddhism. It shows us how the Song dynasty’s highly educated viewed Buddhism and Buddhist institutions such as temples, and how the opinions and critiques of Buddhism went far beyond the “Buddhist cloister”. In fact, he argues that different people have different ideas of Buddhism during the Tang-Song transition and illustrates a community of inscription…

The songs I chose match the criteria in many ways. The 1st song is dark and more terrifying, much like I imagine discovering a tomb filled with thousands of clay men would feel. The 2nd song is about hard work and long days, which it would have taken to uncover such a large tomb. The 3rd song is about preparing for something big, and I think that this would be a big event. Best emperor criteria: educations, improvements for farmers, empathy, treatment of civilians, infrastructure Shi Huangdi: ⅖…

transformed from the end of the Heian Period to the Tokugawa Period, especially the for the shoen system in Japan. During the Heian Period, the control of land and agricultural production was an important concept to the samurai. However, during the Kamakura Period, the jito came into the picture and took over the shoen system. By the mid-fourteenth to the late sixteenth century, the shoen declined due to four different factors. However, during the Tokugawa Period, the samurai gain economic…

This tells that the Japanese enjoyed watching Sakura from the Heian Period and the fact that Sakura influenced the literature during that period. Nowadays, people all over Japan enjoy the Hanami festivals without distinction of age or gender. The dates of celebrations vary by the location or the year, but typically the trees bloom in late March through…

Cyprus and has traces of colour around it. The culture from which this sculpture is made is the Japanese culture. It was created in the 10th century between ca 900 and 1185, this period of time is referred to as the Heian period. The Heian period was the final division of the classical Japanese history. The name Heian was a…

literary context. The Japanese respect for Chinese literature and writing traditions were said to be part of a patriarchal trend in writing during the Heian Period. For instance, Keene’s (1955) historical argument for Murasaki’s authorship is defined within the context of patriarchal Japanese and Chinese traditions: “One of the unusual features of Heian literature is that such works as The Tale of the Genji”, most of the diaries, and much of the poetry were written by women. The usual…

terrain and Archipelago Island, offers lush forest, hot springs and active volcanoes, and the most notable Mountain is Mount Fuji. Many small kingdoms came to together to united around the capital Nara; around the 4th and 8th centuries. Around this period, agriculture improved dramatically and adopted new ideas from China. One of the ideas adopted from China was, Pictographic writing, called Kanji and which, later came Hiragana and Katakana. They also adopted architecture, Confuciusm and…

when they were popular in Japan. Tomoe was popular during the late Heian period. The Heian period is the last division of Chinese history and was a time when religion was at its best. Overall Tomoe and Hangaku are very similar but also are different in many ways. They both are great warriors, strong fighters, Japanese legends, and Gozens. Like I said the had differences too. Tomoe was popular during the late Heian period but Hangaku, on the other hand, was popular after the Gempai war.…

people, as well as the social and economic values of the time, shapes and molds the way the people in that area artistically express themselves. This holds true for the artistic products of ancient Japan, specifically from the Kofun period to the end of the Muromachi period, spanning from about 300 to 1600. Japan's interactions with China and Korea, it's neighbors to the west, both directly and indirectly shaped the evolution of its artistic expressions. The exchange of culture, religion, and…

Vershuer “[distinguishes] between two classes in Heian society: the court aristocracy and the population of commoners including peasants and craftsmen” (324). The dichotomy between the court aristocracy and the commoners oversimplifies the class structure of the Heian society. First of all, it is indispensable to contemplate upon the authorship of the petitions that Vershuer examines in her essay. The petitions she analyzes were written by neither the court aristocrats who went to the provinces…