Fujiwara period
平安時代中期
Movement · period · 951–1086
Dates. Mason’s middle phase of the Heian period, named after the height of the Fujiwara regents’ power1. It begins in 951, for which she names no event (the Fujiwara had ruled as regents since 858), and ends in 1086, when Emperor Shirakawa abdicated and began to govern from retirement as a cloistered emperor2. Mason 2005, p. 101. ↩ Ebd., pp. 101–102. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.