KYOTO--A ceremonial event to mark the New Year featured women in gorgeous Heian ... the shrine. The 12 card players aged between 9 and 29 belong to the Kinki branch of the All Japan Karuta ...

This outdoor party was revived at Jonangu Shrine in 1970. Experts tend the recreated period garden, and poets yearning for a bygone era strive to render the spirit of their Heian forebears.

To use “A Case Study of Heian Japan Through Art,” you will need to print the scroll selections for analysis by students. Links to these prints are provided in the Heian Japan Online Image List. You ...

"Kemari" was popular among Japanese noblemen in the Heian period from the late 8th century to the 12th century. It is still played on January 4 every year at Shimogamo Shrine, a UNESCO World ...

Local organizers of festivals around Japan are hoping to cash ... long and important history of the shrine's festival which is said to have started in the Heian period (794-1192) as a purification ...