https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr fashion, literature, architecture, art, performing arts, Buddhism, Shintoism. en-us 2017-01-24 19:15:33 UTC 2025-12-09 14:55:56 UTC hello@padlet.com 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149142233 The nobles beauty started with their appearance. Heian fashion had to be absolutely beautiful. Men and women both wore silk wardrobes. Women wore long gowns with 12 layers of silk! They wore gold jewelry and decorative fans. Fans were delicately painted with flowers, trees, and birds. ]]> 2017-01-24 19:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149142233 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149147250 Heian literature was very popular, especially for women. Nobles wrote journals about their lives at court. Whenever they wrote they chose their words carefully so their writings would flow nicely. Noble women usually wrote in Japanese and noble men wrote in Chinese. A famous writer, Lady Muraski Shaikibu, wrote the first full-length novel. Many considered it the greatest novel. Lady Muraski Shaikibu wrote focused and clear but also beautifully. She describes court life in her novel. Most nobles wrote poems for fun, some even had parties just to write poems then read them outloud. Most of their poems had 5 lines of love, nature, or daily life.]]> 2017-01-24 19:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149147250 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149150208 Art in Heian was very interesting. Paintings were painted with bright, bold colors that illustrated stories. Nobles painted court life and nature. Most people even painted on furniture and doors, not paper. Calligraphy was a type of art where you carefully copy poems to look as beautiful as possible. Many nobles take several hours calligraphing one poem.]]> 2017-01-24 19:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149150208 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151644 Architecture was very popular during the Heian Period. Nobles copied the Chinese with their nature themed building. Chang'an was a beautiful Chinese Capital the nobles copied. People built buildings with wooden frames that swerve slightly upward. Many building had large open spaces. To finish the building off with an elegant touch, people grew pretty gardens and ponds around the buildings.]]> 2017-01-24 19:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151644 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151758 During the Heian period, many people started to do performing arts. People considered drama to have started during the Heian period. Musicians, jugglers, and acrobats perform wild and fun for the people of Japan. Noh is a type of drama people developed. Noh combines music, speaking, and dance together to make a marvelous production.]]> 2017-01-24 19:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151758 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151803 Buddhism was favored during the Heian period. People decided to make a new type of Buddhism called Pure Land Buddhism because people couldn't afford to have huge rituals. Instead of regular Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism is told to chant Buddha's name over and over. A new religion, Zen, arrived around the 1100s BC. Zen taught that people didn't have to be faithful or have good behavior but they had to think deeply and have meditation time.]]> 2017-01-24 19:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151803 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151877 Shintoism is a Japanese ethnic religion. It teaches that people should worship ancestors and nature. Many people practiced Shintoism because it is considered an easier religion to understand.]]> 2017-01-24 19:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149151877 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149679370 2017-01-26 17:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149679370 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149681189 2017-01-26 17:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149681189 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149681583 2017-01-26 17:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149681583 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149682490 2017-01-26 17:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149682490 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149683130 2017-01-26 17:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149683130 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149684829 2017-01-26 17:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149684829 2022ashley_hogue https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149685809 2017-01-26 17:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2022ashley_hogue/73fw9pkxjoqr/wish/149685809