Japanese Aristocracy In the Heian Period

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the lives of Heian aristocrats in Japan during the tenth and eleventh centuries CE. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context for making inquiries into the period, and then to discuss the Heian aristocracy's relationship with the natural world and the relations between and among the aristocrats of the period.

An important contextual factor of understanding daily life and customs of the Heian aristocracy is that the Heian period appears to have been two things at the same time in Japan. First, it was very much a set piece, in its details and priorities different from previous and following aristocratic environments in Japanese history. Second--and almost a contradiction, as it seems--it appears to have set the tone for certain features of subsequent generations of Japanese culture and society that ..."

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