Click here to go to the YouTube video The theme of this time is The Kokufu Culture. What kind of culture flourished during the Heian period? At the end of the 9th century, as the power of the Tang Dynasty waned, the 260-year-long Tang Dynasty envoys were abolished in 894 at the suggestion of Sugawara-no-Michizane, then a close aide to Emperor Uda. Sugawara-no-Michizane was a scholarly elite who became the right minister of the Imperial Court. He was loved by the emperor, but due to a conspiracy by the Fujiwara clan, he was moved to Dazaifu, far from the capital, where he died. The nobles of the Imperial Court feared…