Heian Period Puns

I've seen blogs discussing the list of the foods. I also read that they used zen tables and each person used have this individual tables.

But how is this placed especially during banquets? If each person had their own table, are they arranged in two parallel lines? Or are the nobles beside each other with spacing?

I'm sorry if my question is confusing...

I have been doing some free-reading into the nobility of Ancient Japan, and I’ve been seriously stumped. In my readings I learned about the Ritsuryō system of government that divided the country into neighborhoods, townships, districts, and finally provinces. But it seems like the holder of those titles was just a governor. I know court life in the Heian period was extremely hierarchical, but I can’t seem to find any information on how the nobility had land, or even the titles which could be held. If anyone could help that would be awesome. Cheers.

I was watching Linfamy's video regarding Japanese sexy times during the Heian Period link down below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbY2uD3E7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqTvVV86Sk

and it got me wondering, don't these women get pregnant someday with all of the fun they had? if so how do they solve it? any links from similar asked question or source is welcome.

and if it's not asking too much, can you explain to me the concept of love in Heian period? how can I, love a woman if I was sleeping with other women frequently? I don't get it.

I found on reddit is from European medieval pregnancies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3l5kp8/in_the_19th_century_and_before_how_prevalent_was/?sort=confidence&st=jaq00a1x&sh=942cdca3

I know it’s hard to know a lot about a period of time so long ago, but I was wondering if there were any noted terrace farm locations of the time? Additionally if there was any notable women of nobility of the time? And I understand that some places of the time were coming under heavy influence of China (ie Taoism/Daoism), with some of the spiritual changes was a possibility ever noted about potential spiritual “cults”?

The full quote goes:

>In the closing years of the Heian period in Japan, the noble class was paying the price for generations of introspection and for their failure to properly attend to administration. For years, they had focused on courtly intrigues and had cultivated pleasures at the expense of their government duties. The ministers of the Imperial Court had become so incompetent that by the year a.d. 1000, they no longer had the knowledge needed to issue new currency. The existing supply of coins gradually shrank, and much of Japan turned to barter economics.

>At the same time, the security and prosperity of the Empire was suffering. Bandits wandered the countryside, making travel between settlements hazardous. Leaving home at night was considered a foolhardy act. Crops failed, or were simply not distributed to the hungry cities. Waves of famine and disease struck the Empire.

The game in question is the tabletop RPG Usagi Yojimbo, from 2006. On a semi-related note, I quite like this game and intend to play it, but if anyone could point me towards a better one for setting, that would be great! I'm not really after anything too indepth, it's more about the general feel and basic setting of the time period than serious studies.

Thanks anyway!

So I was wondering where a Japanese person would have gone in order to do scholarly research. Were women allowed? Were only certain social classes allowed? Where there libraries? Thank you.