Heian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Heian
1890–95; < Japanese heian, earlier feian < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese píngān peace
Example Sentences
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One day last month, it took Hiroshi Ban six hours — twice as long as usual — to visit Kyoto’s Heian Jingu shrine.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
According to W magazine, the hime cut can be traced to the Heian Period in Japan, beginning around the ninth century.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
Now it was insipid and muddy to her tongue, like the pools of the temples of Heian Kyō when the Office of Gardens and Ponds had them drained for cleaning.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2019
At that point, she could not have realized that beneath the novel’s meticulously layered depictions of court life in Heian Japan is a revenge plot worthy of Balzac.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2019
A good share of the Nara poetry is of feminine authorship, and, in the Heian period, women took a still more conspicuous part in maintaining the honour of the native literature.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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