So as I mentioned, China had a huge influence on Japan. Even though China never conquers Japan, because of how close they are, many things like the idea of a centralized bureaucracy, the Japanese borrow many of these ideas from China during the classical period. In fact, the Japanese rulers sent delegations to China in the seventh century in order to understand all of what the Chinese do in order to run their government, to run their country. And they start to borrow a lot of the ideas of Buddhism and Confucianism and merge it with some of their own beliefs, which are often known as Shinto, which you can view as the original Japanese belief system. So the first part of the classical period that we're gonna go into some depth is the Heian period. It's capital at Heian-kyo, modern-day Kyoto. And as I mentioned, it was known for taking a lot of these ideas from China and particularly the Tang dynasty in China and bringing them to Japan.