Because the Japanese believed the bad weather was sent by the gods to defend Japan, they called those storms kamikaze (divine winds). Medieval war tales and other accounts tell us a lot about the ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333 ... from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Heiji monogatori emaki) (detail) Japanese, Kamakura ...

NAKIJIN, Okinawa Prefecture--Skeletal human remains bearing characteristics associated with medieval people in mainland Japan provide the strongest evidence yet of a migration to the nation’s ...