Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

The Kasuga Taisha in Nara has regarded deer as sacred messengers of the gods since the Heian period (794–1185). Today the animals roam freely through Nara Park, and have become a popular tourist ...

In the Heian period ... The same date for the change to summer clothes continued when Buson was writing in the Edo period (1603–1868), and in haiku the general word koromogae for a seasonal ...

The Heian Period (794-1185) was not totally demilitarized. In contemporary literature soldiers are objects of pity and derision.

At the time, he didn't know who would play the lead role, but he knew what he wanted from the show: "an energetic Heian Period (794-1185) version of 'The Godfather.' " ...

DAZAIFU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Braving wintery cold weather, people dressed in exquisite period costumes recited poems at the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine here on March 3.