Heian Period

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  1. 2. Senzui folding screens with landscapes painted on them
  2. 4. Artistic writing style, Kukai thought to be a patron
  3. 6. Means Collection from Ancient and Modern Times. Collected pre-Heian and Heian works in one place
  4. 8. Stylized, cursive shorthand of manyogana
  5. 9. shortened name of horizontal narrative scrolls
  6. 11. Form of Esoteric Buddhism founded by Kukai
  7. 13. Chinese character system for writing
  8. 15. Severe, rectangular shorthand of manyogana
  9. 17. Narrative tales in developing Japanese Literature
Down
  1. 1. Original modified Chinese characters used to represent Japanese phonetics
  2. 3. Japanese painting style used to show native scenes and depict literature, Chinese counterpart is Kara-e
  3. 5. Script that facilitated writing in Japan in Heian Period
  4. 7. specially prepared painted papers with poems that got put on paintings
  5. 10. Form of Esoteric Buddhism founded by Saicho
  6. 12. 31-syllable waka
  7. 14. Japanese Poetry; what a Haiku is derived from
  8. 16. Heian Period Diaries in the Upper-upper-class Aristocracy