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Costume Museum | Discover Kyoto

Boasting a colorful exhibition of garments once worn by Japanese nobility in the Heian period, the Costume Museum is a go-to place for lovers of Japanese history, traditional fashions, and the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji.

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Map of Heian-Kyo City – HEIAN PERIOD

Image Source: Easton, M & Saldais, M, 2011, Oxford Big Ideas Geography| History 8 Australian Curriculum, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, p. 394

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Geiko Yachiyo with a Heian Period Hat 1910s

Yachiyo dressed for the Ashibe odori (Ashibe public dance), holding a travelling hat from the Heian period. Yachiyo (b.1887 - d.1924) was a famous geiko (geisha) from Osaka, known for her elegance and her lovely personality. People were said to weep with joy at the sight of her dancing. She became a maiko (apprentice geisha) at the age of thirteen and left the profession to marry the artist Suga Tatehiko (b.1878 - d.1963) at the age of twenty-nine, but died aged only thirty-six from an…

Murasaki-Shikibu by Kano Tannyu The Tale of Genji 源氏物語 - a classic work of Japanese literature written by the Japanese noblewoman, Lady Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic.

Murasaki-Shikibu by Kano Tannyu The Tale of Genji 源氏物語 - a classic work of Japanese literature written by the Japanese noblewoman, Lady Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic.