This illustration is based on a picture scroll of the Imperial Audience Hall at the Heian palace. "The front side of the lower story was completely open, with the back and sides provided with ...

This is the Heian period. Our protagonist would rather be strong than feminine, and thus she's trated like a weirdo. However, once she meets the man everyone in palace has been talking about ...

1,000 years ago, aristocrats would compose short Waka poems seated by a babbling brook at the imperial palace, sipping sake ... to render the spirit of their Heian forebears.