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Court authority declined whith the rise of the provincial warrior nobility of the Taira and Minamoto clans. The end of the Heian period was the establishment of the [[Shogun]]ate by [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] and the shift of power from the Imperial seat Heiankyo to the Shogun's seat at [[Kamakura]] near today's Tokyo, the beginning of the [[Kamakura period]].

Court authority declined whith the rise of the provincial warrior nobility of the Taira and Minamoto clans. The end of the Heian period was the establishment of the [[Shogun]]ate by [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] and the shift of power from the Imperial seat Heiankyo to the Shogun's seat at [[Kamakura]] near today's Tokyo, the beginning of the [[Kamakura period]].

The Heian period was an era of peace and prosperity for central and western Japan. Court culture flourished, poetry was highly regarded and one of the world's first novels, the ''Genji monogatari'', was written in the early eleventh century by Murasaki Shinbun, a noblewoman probably belonging to the Fujiwara.

The Heian period was an era of peace and prosperity for central and western Japan. Court culture flourished, poetry was highly regarded and one of the world's first novels, the ''[[The Tale of Genji|Genji monogatari]]'', was written in the early eleventh century by [[Murasaki Shikibu]].

[[Category:Japanese History]]

[[Category:Japanese History]]