Carski dvor u Kyotu
Carski dvor u Kyotu, starinski heianski carski dvor bila je nominalno vladajuće tijelo u Japanu od 794., otkad je car Kanmu preselio glavni grad u Heian-kyō (dosloce "glavni grad mira", današnji Kyōto) do razdoblja Meijija (1868. – 1912.), nakon kojeg je dvor preseljen iz Kyota u Tokio i integriran u Meijijevsku vladu (明治政府, Meiji seifu). Car je bio samo nominalni vladar, a prava vlast bila je u razdoblju Heianu u rukama sekkana iz seishija Fujiware, usprkos carskom pokušaju izmicanja od Fujiwarskog vlastodrštva putem ustanove inseija. Nakon Genpejskog rata, Šogunatski sustav došao je 1185., kad je Minamoto no Yoritomo uspostavio bakufu i moć bila u rukama šoguna kao nasljednu.
Budući da je Minamoto no Yoritomo pokrenuo šogunat, prava vlast bila je u rukama šoguna, za koje su na strane zemlje, prije svega Kina, često pogrešno mislila da su japanski carevi.
- Carska palača u Kyotu
- Pet regentskih kuća
- Heianska palača
- Insei (klaustrirana vladavina)
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- Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0523-2
- Sansom, George. (1952). Japan: A Short Cultural History. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0952-1 (tkani omot) ISBN 978-0-8047-0954-5 (papirni omot)
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland....Click link to digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
- Ury, Marian. (1999). "Chinese Learning and Intellectual Life", The Cambridge history of Japan: Heian Japan. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22353-9 (tkani omot)
- Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4