Early Heian period
平安時代前期
Movement · period · 794–951
Dates. It begins in 794 with the move of the capital to Heian-kyō. Mason ends it in 951 without naming an event for that year: the following phase is defined by the height of the Fujiwara regents’ influence, not by a single date1. Mason 2005, pp. 10, 101. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.