#heian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #heian, aggregated by home.social.
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#ScribesAndMakers If your creative work could speak, what would it say about you?
And what's this with the poetry in your stories? It started as quoted song lyrics, and now there are whole chapters where characters exchange renga and kkatauta. Yes, I know the #Heian and #Edo periods, and the narrator explains it, but do you think readers want this level of realism?
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📕 Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection (A free, 215-page book from 1979)
Tags: #History #JapaneseBuddhism #Literature #Medieval #Heian
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/tales-of-times-now-past_ury-marian -
The Shintō shrine Jōnangū (城南宮) in Kyōto, was a palace of Emperors from the beginning of the #Heian Period in 794. It has #gardens from different periods since then, and a patch of pink and white #plum blossoms around a big stone lantern is a most stunning sight to behold. Several years ago the head priest showed me around and explained the history in Japanese. Jōnangū is not well known to tourists, but it draws many reverent Japanese.
The third photo is of a teahouse and a reddish variety of plum blossoms. The last photo shows what my American friend whom I guided got: a seal written in #calligraphy by the shrine maiden (o-miko-san). Jōnangū is written down the center, with yesterday's date down the left side. The right side is what the shrine especially offers: houyoke - a #prayer to avoid obstacles or worries, such as with one's family. There is a great demand for such #blessings nowadays.
#Japan #Kyoto #religion #Shintoism #Shinto #history #nature #travel
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Tourists seem to be missing the best parts of some major Shintō shrines in Kyōto, the inner gardens with ponds. During this spring season, they are like Renoir paintings, but with a blue heron. The Heian Jingū (平安神宮) has its iconic long and symmetrical buildings that replicate the former Imperial palace, but here are some scenes from the entrance and inside the garden area. Read more details in the captions if you like.
#Japan #Kyoto #gardens #Shintoism #Heian #palace
