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.

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was played as early as the 16th century, while a direct ancestor without the " drop rule " was recorded from 1210 in a historical document Nichūreki, which is an edited copy of Shōchūreki and Kaichūreki from the late Heian period ( c. 1120 ).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

Although a three-color lead glaze technique was introduced to Japan from the Tang Dynasty of China in the 8th century, official kilns produced only simple green lead glaze for temples in the Heian period, around 800 – 1200 AD.

When the palace at the new Heian Capital ( now Kyoto ) was constructed at the end of the 8th c., the river's course was altered to flow east of the palace.

Copy of a tachi blade from the end of the Heian era ( 11th century ).

The Burakumin are a group that is socially discriminated against in Japanese society, whose recorded history goes back to the Heian Period in the 11th century.

The Tale of Genji ( early 11th century ) by Murasaki Shikibu is considered the pre-eminent masterpiece of Heian fiction and an early example of a work of fiction in the form of a novel.

is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the Japanese noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period.

Byōdō-in Phoenix Hall, built in the 11th century during the Heian period of Japan.

Genji Monogatari ( early 11th century ) by a woman named Murasaki Shikibu is considered the pre-eminent masterpiece of Heian fiction and an early example of a work of fiction in the form of a novel.

The first floor, called The Chamber of Dharma Waters, is rendered in shinden-zukuri style, reminiscent of the residential style of the 11th century Heian imperial aristocracy.

However, in practice the ritsuryō system of government had become largely an empty formality as early as in the middle of the Heian period in the 10th and 11th centuries, a development which was completed by the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate in 1185.

Nevertheless, references do exist, and they become more numerous in the Heian Period, roughly the 11th century.

is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi ( 定子 ) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan.

Some Emishi tribes resisted the rule of the Japanese Emperors during the late Nara and early Heian periods ( 7th – 10th centuries CE ).

The Konjaku Monogatari, a collection of stories published in the late Heian Period, contains some of the earliest tales of tengu, already characterized as they would be for centuries to come.

Over the course of centuries, the ritsuryō state produced more and more information which was carefully archived ; however, with the passage of time in the Heian period, ritsuryō institutions evolved into a political and cultural system without feedback.

Over the course of centuries, the ritsuryō state produced more and more information which was carefully archived ; however, with the passage of time in the Heian period, ritsuryō institutions evolved into a political and cultural system without feedback.

While swords clearly played an important cultural and religious role in ancient Japan, it is in the Heian period when the globally recognised curved Japanese sword was developed, and when swords became an important weapon, as well as a symbolic item.

This half-tongued style of stirrup ( hanshita abumi ) remained in use until the late Heian period when a new stirrup was developed.

By the Nara period, it had developed as a port, and as a monzenmachi associated with Katori Shrine, and in the Heian period was a regional commerce center for numerous shōen in the area.

In the Heian Period ( 794 – 1185 ), this idea developed into moveable mats that could be laid anywhere in the house to sit or sleep on before becoming a permanent floor covering in the fifteenth century.

Records of Sagami during the Heian period are sparse, but during this period large shōen controlled by various warrior-class clans developed.

The writing of the linked-verse form renga dates to the middle of the Heian period ( roughly AD 1000 ) and developed through the medieval era.

By the late Heian period Japanese lamellar armour developed into full-fledged samurai armour called Ō-yoroi.

Uta-ai, ceremonial waka recitation contests, developed in the middle of the Heian period.

It developed into the major Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) temple for rural Dewa province ( now Yamagata and Akita prefectures ).

is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Tang Dynasty paintings and fully developed by the late Heian period.

The technique was developed mainly in the Heian Period ( 794 – 1185 ) and blossomed in the Edo Period ( 1603 – 1868 ).

Tsuridono ( 釣殿 )</ small > Shinden-zukuri ( 寝殿造 ) refers to the style of domestic architecture developed for palatial or aristocratic mansions built in Heian-kyō ( 平安京, today's Kyoto ) in the Heian period ( 794-1185 ), especially in 10th century Japan.

Raden developed rapidly in the Heian period ( 794-1185 ), and was used in architecture as well as lacquerware.