On the other side of the globe, the Japanese have luxuriated since the Heian era in hot-spring onsen that dot their volcanic and quake-strewn archipelago.

在地球的另一端，日本人在平安时代就已经开始沉迷于位于火山地震带上群岛的温泉。

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Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing.

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In the late Heian era (893-1185), when the book is set, the ruling Fujiwara clan of upper-class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters to court at Kyoto, hoping that one would give birth to a crown prince and ensure their control of the imperial power.

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