Based largely on the ideals and aesthetics of Zen Buddhism and the concept of wabi-sabi (beauty in simplicity), Higashiyama Bunka centered on the development of chadō (Japanese tea ceremony), ikebana (flower arranging), Noh drama, and sumi-e ink painting.
Heian period | Edo period | Meiji period | Kamakura period | Tudor period | Hellenistic period | Warring States period | Sengoku period | interwar period | Taishō period | Muromachi period | Jōmon period | Interwar period | Yamato period | Stuart period | Woodland period | The Best Damn Sports Show Period | Spring and Autumn period | Shōwa period | Second Temple period | Sangam period | Early modern period | early modern period | Vedic period | ''Taishō'' period | Nara period | Migration Period | Helladic period | Classical period | Asuka period |