In many ways, Dazaifu became in practical terms the capital of southwestern Japan in the Heian period. Heian Governance and the Fujiwara ... his official position to his own young son but retaining ...

Daughter of a Poor Scholar. 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 ...

Men dressed as samurai warriors in armor walk out after the Kachiya Festival at Katori Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday. The festival celebrates the warlord Fujiwara Hidesato's victory in suppressing a ...

This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent ...

The transition from Heian Period peace to the war-prone Kamakura Period was a rough one. Surprisingly, the transition from conflict to the boardrooms of modern Japan were just as rough.

August is the traditional period in Japan when the worlds of the living and the dead overlap, but who’s to say spirits don’t make an exception for Halloween?

The Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto City is home to about 250 cherry trees. ... The area was previously home to a villa of the once-powerful Fujiwara clan, ...