Unlike Western traditions, in which religion is exclusive (you can only belong to one), the Japanese were much more flexible in their beliefs. Shinto and Buddhism coexisted peacefully. During the ...

Cherry blossoms, or sakura (桜), are one of Japan’s most iconic natural spectacles. Every spring, millions of people travel to ...

The methods and motifs of the artform underwent several shifts in early centuries before the sculptor Jōchō brought it to a peak of native Japanese refinement in the late Heian period. Buddhist ...

When hardworking Japanese wish to put the modern ... Twelve hundred years ago, early in the Heian Period (794-1185) in the year 816, the Buddhist monk Kukai made his way to the primeval forest ...

When hardworking Japanese wish to put the modern ... Twelve hundred years ago, early in the Heian Period (794-1185) in the year 816, the Buddhist monk Kukai made his way to the primeval forest ...

Director Shimako Sato was determined to quash any preconceptions her latest film, “The Yin Yang Master Zero,” must be set in the Heian Period ... in ancient Japan known as “onmyoji.” ...

The Heian period is considered the peak of the Japanese aesthetic ... Its predecessors originated in India and, along with Buddhism, came to Japan through China. Scrolls were used to depict stories of ...