Akabane Hachiman Shrine has a very long history, having been founded roughly 1,225 years ago. The key figure in its creation ...

Forged in the Heian Period (794-1185), the blade is the oldest among the 100 or so that are housed at the shrine in the ancient capital’s Kamigyo Ward. Legend has it that the warlord Watanabe no ...

Legend traces the shrine’s origins back to the year 593 during the reign of Empress Suiko, but it was Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181), a general of the Heian Period (794-1185), who gets the credit ...

This outdoor party was revived at Jonangu Shrine in 1970. Experts tend the recreated period garden, and poets yearning for a bygone era strive to render the spirit of their Heian forebears.