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See also: Nara (homonymy)

The time of Nara (in Japanese: 奈良時代) is one of the 14 traditional subdivisions of the Histoire of Japan. It corresponds at the time which extends between 710 and 794.

This time begins with the installation from the capital by the empress Gemmei in Heijō Kyō, now known under the name of Nara. She ends, when the emperor Kammu moved the capital with Nagaoka to escape the influence from the “Six Buddhist schools from Nara”. This site was quickly left with the profit of Heian Kyō (Kyōto) because the place seemed harmful.

This time also saw the accession with the throne of the last Japanese Empress for almost thousand years. Following the harmful influence exerted by the Dôkyô monk on the Shōtoku empress, it was indeed decided that more no woman would be authorized to go up on the throne, these last seeming too prone to the “devotion”.

The majority of the Japanese devoted itself at that time to the Agriculture and lived in villages or hamlets around the wells. The majority of the villagers believed in the religion Shinto, based on the worship of the kami S, i.e., the forces of nature and the spirits of the ancestors.

Short historical background

In 710, the Japanese government founds its permanent capital with Nara. Built on the Chinese model, the city shelters several Buddhist monasteries. The influence of the latter threatens the Emperor who moves the capital with Nagaoka into 784 then in Heian (Kyōto) which will remain capital Empire during more than thousand years (Until the time of the Meiji restoration, 1868).

The Chinese influence declines little by little. The Japanese transform the Chinese contribution and develop an administrative system, a specific writing, religion and arts. The Taika reform fails. The farmers do not arrive at living with their grounds which they are constrained to sell to great landowners. The latter are essential beside the nobility and of the priests who enjoy the privilege of tax exemption. In parallel, the tax incomes of the imperial court decrease gradually. In 712 and 720 the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were compiled

External bonds

HistoJapon, History of Japan

See too

Zh-yue: 奈良時代

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