#Heiankyo

[maleficruled]

@vashmerylweek Day 1: Indirect Kiss "Take a sip from my cup and thirst no more." Vash and Meryl are court nobles in Heiankyo. Sei Shonagon might have written about them before.

[whencyclopedia]

Emperor Kammu

Emperor Kammu (aka Kanmu) reigned in ancient Japan from 781 to 806 CE and is most noted for relocating the capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto) in 794 CE. Kammu was one of the most powerful emperors Japan had seen or would ever see, and his reign witnessed a restructuring of the royal household and government, reducing the state's costs and making it better able to manage the country and fight corruption.

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Insei: Gouvernement Retiré dans le Japon Ancien

Insei ou "gouvernement retiré" décrit la stratégie des empereurs de la fin de la période Heian (794-1185) dans l'ancien Japon, qui consistait à abdiquer en faveur d'un héritier choisi tout en continuant à régner d'une manière ou d'une autre, généralement après s'être retiré dans un monastère bouddhiste, d'où la référence dans le nom. Les empereurs prenaient de telles mesures pour éviter qu'eux-mêmes et leur successeur ne soient dominés par les puissantes familles régnantes de l'époque, en particulier les membres du clan Fujiwara, qui cherchaient à placer leurs propres partisans sur le trône impérial. Bien que cette stratégie ait été utilisée avec succès par plusieurs empereurs, elle eut deux conséquences malheureuses: les provinces devinrent plus éloignées du contrôle du gouvernement et les rivalités pour le pouvoir au Japon s'exacerbèrent à tel point qu'une plus grande militarisation de la politique finit par conduire à un renversement complet du gouvernement et à un règne de longue durée des shoguns à l'époque médiévale.

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[obscurevideogames]

Heiankyo Alien (Meldac - Game Boy - 1990)

[dmitriyuriev]

Enough. There is nothing more to say. Youjutsu Zanhou: Moonflower.

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

Rolling around on the floor about LimDan again don’t mind me

[amberdawn]

wodime kind of a pain in the ass. i would kill him with hammers i'll tell you that.

[300iqprower]

Me spending way too much time on theming command codes vol 2:

[np5enkidu]

happy lb6 na release for those who celebrate

[algusunderdunk]

A videogame hints and secrets book published in the 90s which essentially just had codes and tricks in an encyclopedic list of games.

One game, called Haienkyo Alien, was an arcade type game where you used a shovel to dig holes and bury monsters before they could eat you.

There were no secrets or codes for this game. But it still had an entry in this guide. It had a short story from the perspective of the man carrying the shovel, and that story has lived in my head for three decades.

Even a lawnmower manual can be great writing.

Mr. Neil, I have perhaps the most important question I could ask here.

The core of writing advice has one thing. One, special thing to it. And that is: “Write. Write write write.”

But what COUNTS as writing? Surely writing a manual for a lawnmower has nothing to do with becoming a fiction writer.

But what about writing fan fiction? Writing out a dnd story with original characters? Does it just have to be publishable work in the most serious sense?

What counts as writing is writing. Learning how to express yourself clearly is everything. Writing a manual for a lawnmower that’s a good manual for a lawnmower will teach you a lot of about clearly telling people what things look like and how to do things in your fiction. No joke. Write.

[homeinchaldea]

Olympus done.

[straycath99]

Silly me was too focused on sukume that I failed to realize they're in Arashiyama Bamboo forest. It's 5 km far from Kyoto or modern day Heiankyo.

Funny enough, it is one of the most known dating spots in Kyoto and if you walked straight, you will find Nonomiya Shrine. I remember the shrine being a shrine of love in The Tale of Genji (the first novel in the world written in the Heian era)

The Heian era is also regarded as the most romantic era in Japan. So I guess until the end, Gege stick to the "love is the most twisted curse" theme.

[whencyclopedia]

Sengoku Period

The Sengoku Period (Sengoku Jidai, 1467-1568 CE), also known as the Warring States Period, was a turbulent and violent period of Japanese history when rival warlords or daimyo fought bitterly for control of Japan. The period falls within the Muromachi period (Muromachi Jidai, 1333-1573 CE) of Japanese medieval history when the Ashikaga shogun capital was located in the Muromachi area of Heiankyo (Kyoto). The beginning of the Sengoku period witnessed the Onin War (1467-1477 CE) which destroyed Heiankyo. The fighting that followed over the next century would eventually reduce the warlords to only a few hundred in number as the country was effectively carved up into princedoms. Eventually, one warlord rose above all his rivals: Oda Nobunaga, who set Japan on the road to unification from 1568 CE.

The Daimyo & Ashikaga Shogunate

The Ashikaga Shogunate (1338-1573 CE) held control of the central part of Japan, and the bureaucracy at the capital was relatively efficient, but the outer provinces were left semi-independent as local warlords or daimyo ruled their own lands how they saw fit. Local officials and estate managers such as the jito found it much more difficult to secure the taxes the state was due from landlords who now had no fear of any government reprisals. The daimyo (literally 'Great Names') were feudal lords who commanded personal armies of samurai or anyone else willing to take up arms and defend their lord's estates and help expand it.

Some daimyo were aristocrats with a long heritage of land ownership, others were military governors (shugo) who went independent from the weakened shogunate, and there were also new lords who were the sons of tradesmen who had gathered together a small army to simply take by force the land of others. The phenomenon of new rulers overthrowing the established order and of branch families taking the estates of the traditional major clans became known as gekokujo or 'those below overthrowing those above.' The consequence of all the upheaval was that Japan became a patchwork of feudal estates centred around their individual castles and fortified mansions.

In the absence of a strong central government - a situation only worsened by the shogun Yoshimasa's (r. 1449-1473 CE) decision to retreat to his Ginkakuji palace to contemplate the arts; the rule of law was very often replaced by the rule of force. The more powerful lords absorbed the lands of their weaker rivals and became known as sengoku daimyo. The warlords then passed on their position of strength to their male heir and so the position of daimyo became hereditary unless challenged by ambitious subordinate commanders. The wealth of the daimyo came from commerce, trade, and taxes imposed on those peasants who farmed on their estates. Daimyo may have been a law unto themselves but many of them did formulate law codes to better regulate the sometimes thousands of people under their command. These laws could cover anything from the prohibition of building castles and fortifications in their territory to measures that avoided wasting money on expensive theatre actors brought in from outside the daimyo's domain.

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Tō-ji

Le complexe de temples bouddhistes Tō-ji Shingon est situé à Kyoto, au Japon. Fondée en 796, sa pagode en bois de cinq étages est la plus grande du Japon, un symbole de la ville et un trésor national. Le complexe comprend d'autres exemples de styles architecturaux anciens tels que la salle principale Kōndo et la salle de conférence Kōdō, ainsi que de nombreuses sculptures de personnages importants. Le Tō-ji est également classé au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO et reste le centre du bouddhisme Shingon (ésotérique) au Japon.

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[hasmashdoneanythingwrong]

Fate/Samurai Remnant spoilers

Wow, unarmored Ushi Gozen/Raikou looks a lot like Shuten with her hair that short… she just needs some horns.

Also, anyone else find it kind of darkly funny that Berserker Raikou is arguably the least unstable Raikou we’ve seen outside the still living one in Heiankyo?

[ms-foobles]

you know minecraft really has some heiankyo alien vibes. being chased by monsters in tight corridors (caves), digging holes... filling in holes... it even allows for enemies to fall in holes and for you to bury them in the holes. The shovels in minecraft even closely resemble the tool used by the player character in some promotional art

really it's almost shameless