Chinese calligraphic influence had been weakened after the Heian period ; this text was an example of the different way it was evolving in Japan.

The Fujiwara dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) through the monopoly of regent positions, sesshō and kampaku.

During the Heian period of Japanese history, the Hokke managed to establish a hereditary claim to the position of regent, either for an underage emperor ( sesshō ) or for an adult one ( kampaku ).

By the early Heian period, the shōen had obtained legal status, and the large religious establishments sought clear titles in perpetuity, waiver of taxes, and immunity from government inspection of the shōen they held.

The Fujiwara-dominated Heian period approached its end along disturbances of 12th century.

* In the manga and anime Hikaru no Go, the protagonist Hikaru Shindo learns Go from the ghost of a Go genius from the Heian period, Fujiwara no Sai.

" hair of the eye "); modern mieru (" to be visible ") and kikoeru (" to be audible ") retain what may have been a frequentative suffix-ru ( kikoyu > kikoyuru ( the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period ) > kikoeru ( as all shimo-nidan verbs in modern Japanese did )); and the genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech.

Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period, from 794 to 1185.

In the Heian period ( 8th to 11th centuries ) sword-making developed through techniques brought over from China through trade in the early 10th century.

The nihonto as we know it today with its deep, graceful curve has its origin in shinogi-zukuri ( single-edged blade with ridgeline ) tachi which were developed sometime around the middle of the Heian period to service the need of the growing military class.

During Japan's Heian period ( 794 – 1192 AD ), the kimono became increasingly stylized, though one still wore a half-apron, called a mo, over it.

Shogi in its present form was played as early as the 16th century, while a direct ancestor without the " drop rule " was recorded from 1210 in a historical document Nichūreki, which is an edited copy of Shōchūreki and Kaichūreki from the late Heian period ( c. 1120 ).

In the Heian period ( 8th – 12th centuries ) this was one of the important rites at the Imperial Court and had found its fixed place in the tama shizume festival in the eleventh month.

In the Heian period, sake was used for religious ceremonies, court festivals, and drinking games .< REF > Morris, Ivan.

Eventually, the title was abandoned in the later Heian period after the Ainu had been either subjugated or driven to Hokkaidō.

The term waka was coined during the Heian period, and was used to distinguish Japanese-language poetry from kanshi ( poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets ), and later from renga.

During the Nara period and the early Heian period, the court favored Chinese-style poetry ( kanshi ) and the waka art form largely fell out of official favor.

After the Heian period, during the Kamakura period and later, renga, a form of collaborative linked poetry, began to develop.

In the late Heian period, three of the last great waka poets appeared: Fujiwara no Shunzei, his son Fujiwara no Teika, and Emperor Go-Toba.

These last three forms, however, fell into disuse at the beginning of the Heian period, and chōka vanished soon afterwards.

, also known as Somedono no Daijin or Shirakawa-dono, was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.

In Japan, the Fujiwara clan dominated central politics by acting as imperial regents, controlling the actions of the Emperor of Japan, who acted merely as a ' puppet monarch ' during the Heian period.

Heian period.

The procession ends at the Heian Shrine.

The Saiin order of priestesses existed throughout the Heian and Kamakura periods.

There were emperors who abdicated and cloistered emperors before and after the Heian period, but the cloistered rule system usually refers to the governing system put in place by Emperor Shirakawa in 1086 and remained in force until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192.

The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or " warring states " period, in the 15th century, but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century, and possibly even in the 12th century ( Heian or early Kamakura era ).

Painting of an ancient Sumo competition, Heian period | Heian or Kamakura period

Traditional horseback archery ( yabusame ) festivals, which date from the beginning of the Kamakura period ( immediately following the Heian period ) feature similar dress.

The end of the Genpei War brought about the end of the Heian and the beginning of the Kamakura period.

During the rise of the samurai class during the Heian and Kamakura Periods ( 794 – 1333 ), the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the Koto family of Nagato Province gained influence as powerful warrior clans.

Thus the Seiwa Genji line proved to be the most strong and dominant Minamoto line during the late Heian period with Minamoto no Yoritomo eventually forming the Kamakura Shogunate and becoming shogun in 1192.

Sanetomo was a talented poet, writing over 700 poems between the ages of 17 and 22 while being tutored by Fujiwara no Teika, even having one of his tanka included in the anthology Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ( 100 Poems by 100 Poets ), a noted collection of Japanese poems of the Heian and early Kamakura periods.

Usuki Stone Buddhas-Approximately 60 cliff carvings of Buddha that were crafted between the Heian period ( 794 – 1192 ) and the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) are the only rock carvings of their kind to have received a " National Treasure " designation.

was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura period.

was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino ( now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto ) at the turbulent close of the Heian Period and lived during the Kamakura Period.

The area around Hirosaki was part of the domains of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and were awarded to the Nambu clan by Minamoto Yoritomo after the defeat of the Northern Fujiwara in the early Kamakura period.

The area was nominally under control of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and became part of the holdings granted to the Nanbu clan after the defeat of the North Fujiwara by Minamoto Yoritomo in the Kamakura period.

The area was nominally under control of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and became part of the holdings granted to the Nanbu clan after the defeat of the North Fujiwara by Minamoto Yoritomo in the Kamakura period.

During the late Heian period, the area was controlled by Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa, and a succession of minor warlords during the Sengoku period.

Large scale shoen in the Heian period gave was to feudal samurai estates in the Kamakura period, with large portions controlled by the temple of Shomyo-ji in Mutsuura.

In the Heian and Kamakura period, it was under the control of shōen ruled by the Chiba clan for over 600 years.

From the Heian period through Kamakura period, the area was divided into shōen controlled by various samurai clans and in the Sengoku period was the site of several battles between the late Hōjō clan of Odawara and the Miura clan.

During the rise of the samurai class in the Heian and Kamakura Periods ( 794 – 1333 ), the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the Koto family of Nagato Province gained influence as powerful warrior clans.

From the Nara period through the Heian period and until the Kamakura period, Dazaifu was one of the military and administrative centers of Japan.

Although less elaborate than during the Heian period, architecture in the Kamakura period was informed by a simplicity due to its association with the military order.