Taira clan

is equivalent to the amount of rice it takes to feed one man for a year. Which is about 180 liters of rice. The samurai class didn't rise to power until the 12th century, when two powerful Japanese clans fought against each other for power - the Taira Clan and the Minamato Clan. After the Minamoto clan won the Gempei War(1180-1185),the Minamoto’s establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, a military dictatorship that dominated Japan from 1192 to 1333 (Gempei War). During this time samurai were to…

The social and political structure of an era greatly influences the arts and cultural products of the time. The relationship a government has with the governed, its interactions with neighboring states and 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…