Heian
Ehime · 平安Browse Ehime’s cultural heritage from the Heian period (794 – 1185). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A Heian great armour at Oyamazumi Shrine in Ehime, laced in three colours to form an arrowhead plant. The Agency calls it the oldest armour surviving.
A Tang bronze mirror at Oyamazumi Shrine in Ehime, 26.8 centimetres across. A grapevine forms the ground beneath birds and beasts. National Treasure since 1953.
Late Heian finds from a sutra mound atop Mount Narahara, Imabari: a bronze pagoda, sutra case, mirrors, painted fans and Song porcelain. National Treasure, 1956.
A Heian armor at Oyamazumi Shrine, Ehime, combining the great armor and the domaru, the only survivor of its kind and a National Treasure since 1952.
A late Heian great armor at Oyamazumi Shrine, Ehime, a National Treasure since 1952, said to have been offered by Kono Michinobu and laced with hemp.
Discover the Raden-Decorated Ceremonial Sword traditionally said to have been offered by Komatsu Shigemori (Taira no Shigemori), an Important Cultural Property housed at Oyamazumi Shrine on Omishima Island in Ehime. This dazzling kazari-tachi, adorned with iridescent mother-of-pearl inlay, embodies the refined courtly aesthetic of late Heian aristocracy. Designated in 1901, it offers visitors a rare window into the world of Japan's most elite court rituals.