Books about the Heian Period

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Books about the Heian Period (794 to 1185)

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Three very long entries in wikibooks:

Japanese History/The Early Heian Period
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Japanese History/The Middle Heian Period
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Japanese History/The Late Heian Period
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. Heian no Yami 平安の闇 The Dark Side of the Heian Period - books .
- 樺島忠夫 Kabashima Tadao (1927 - )
- 夢枕獏 Yumemakura Baku (1951 - )



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Adolphson, Mikael S.; Commons, Anne;
Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory

Ambros Barbara Ambros
Pilgrimages of Noblewomen in Mid-Heian Japan


Bargen, Doris G.
Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan
The original Japanese word for “peeping tomism” is kaimami (“looking through a gap in the fence”).
- comment by Hiroaki Sato - Japan Times 2016


Bentley John R. Bentley
ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms / dictionary of man'yogana.

Blair Heather Blair
. Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan .
Kinpusen 金峯山

Broma-Smenda Karolina Broma-Smenda
How to Create a Legend?
An Analysis of Constructed Representations of Ono no Komachi in Japanese Medieval Literature


Fukayama Toshio Fukuyama (Author), Ronald K Jones (Translator)
Heian Temples: Byodo-In and Chuson-Ji


Herail Francine Herail (Author), Wendy Cobcroft (Translator)
Emperor and Aristocracy in Heian Japan: 10th and 11th centuries


Izumi Shikibu / Ono no Komachi
The Ink Dark Moon (tr. Hirschfeld and Aratani)


Keller Kimbrough
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way
Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan


Laffin Christina
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women:
Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu


Pandey Rajyashree Pandey
Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair:
Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives


Sango Asuka
The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan


Sen Sōshitsu Sen
Tea in the Heian Era
The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu
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Steiniger, Brian Steiniger
Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan - Poetics and Practice



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Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794–1185). In this book, Brian Steininger revisits the mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.

Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan reconstructs the lived practice of Chinese poetic and prose genres among Heian officials, analyzing the material exchanges by which documents were commissioned, the local reinterpretations of Tang aesthetic principles, and the ritual venues in which literary Chinese texts were performed in Japanese vocalization. Even as state ideology and educational institutions proclaimed the Chinese script’s embodiment of timeless cosmological patterns, everyday practice in this far-flung periphery subjected classical models to a string of improvised exceptions. Through careful comparison of literary and documentary sources, this book provides a vivid case study of one society’s negotiation of literature’s position—both within a hierarchy of authority and between the incommensurable realms of script and speech.
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Stockdale Jonathan
Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult


Suzuki Yui
Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan




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Colors and Heian Court Literature
色彩から見た王朝文学 と『源氏物語』の色
発行：笠間書院


Music in Heian literature - Ongaku
源氏物語の音楽 - ─平安・鎌倉時代の雅楽はこんな曲
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Waka no Rule 和歌のルール / 渡部泰明編 (Rules about Waka poetry)
「枕詞まくらことば」「掛詞かけことば」「本歌取り」. . .


. Wamyō Ruijushō 倭名類聚抄 Dictionary of Chinese Characters .

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Heian-kyo (Kyoto) overlay map using the present Google map
平安京オーバレイマップ



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