Politics
What form of government existed during the Heian period?
absolute monarchy
What is Heian?
The capital city of Japan during the Heian period
This was considered necessary for a beautiful smile.
blackened teeth
Heian nobles would often gather by a stream or at a party to listen to people read these.
poems
What are the names of the plays that blend dance and drama this is still popular in Japan today.
Noh plays
What were the nobles that lived with the emperor in Heian called?
city nobles / court nobles / Heian nobles
What is the name of the architectural style that the Japanese borrowed from China that was very prominent in Heian?
pagoda style
What did the peasants in Japan call the Heian nobles?
dwellers among the clouds
When women would visit other nobles in Heian, they often would not see them. They would just drop off . . .
a calling card
What is the name of Heian today?
Kyoto
What were the nobles that descended from the clan chiefs called?
What leads to a Shinto shrine? There were many of these all over Heian.
torri gates
Ideally, this would be longer than a woman's height.
a woman's hair
Japanese men wrote in _____, and Japanese women wrote in _____.
Chinese / Japanese
Women and men would carefully guard the recipes for this, and important male Heian nobles would be known by their own person one of these.
perfume
What did the country nobles create/organize to fight against the emperor at the end of the Heian period?
their own private armies
After viewing several photos of Heian buildings, what material are most of them built out of?
wood
How many layers was the proper amount for gowns during the Heian period?
12
What is Lady Murasaki Shikibu famous for?
writing the world's first novel
Name 3 popular art forms during the Heian period.
Literature, Fashion, Poetry, Calligraphy, Performing Art, Architecture, Visual Art (or any example within these)
The Heian Period ended for various reasons, one of which was . . .
the emperor ignored the needs of his people / the Japanese were resentful of the emperor for that
gardens and ponds
1) What did Heian nobles do to their faces?
2) What would men grow on their face?
3) What would women do above their eyes?
1) cover them with white powder
2) triangle beard
3) shave off their eyebrows (and draw new ones high on their foreheads)
What is the name of Lady Murasaki Shikibu's book?
The Tale of Genji
Sometimes, letters would be returned if . . .
They were not folded properly.
or
If the handwriting was considered unrefined.