Japanese History

2007-11-09T17:55:00.000-08:00

At the moment, I`m reading a little manga book on the Heian Era in Japan. There was also a bit in the book about the genji monogatari. The story looks interesting, I`ll have to make another attempt to find it.

In the Heian era they lived in big walled cities, there was a complicated class structure, and there were lots of princesses who wore layered kimonos.

2007-11-05T20:55:00.000-08:00

Lately I've been reading a book based on coloured-in black and white photographs of Kyoto around the Meiji Era. I only just found out through it that Japan's flag used to look different, it was a bigger red circle off-centre with red rays coming out of it on a white background. It looks more original and more clearly shows that it's a sun, although it looks less like a flag. I think they changed it after the war.

My Japanese teacher told us about the Genji Monogatari which is a 1000 year old story written by a woman in the Heian era, I got a book with little pictures from it from the library. The real version is something like 50 volumes long, but there are lots of shortened versions of it.

Japanese History

2007-11-01T21:24:00.001-07:00

I'm interested in learning more about Japanese history so I've decided to create a blog on this, too.