Reform of Taika

The reform of Taika (大化の改新, Taika No kaishin ) consists of a series of articles written under the reign of the emperor Kōtoku in 646, that is to say shortly after the death of the prince Shōtoku and the defeat of the Clan and the unification of the Japan which resulted from it. The crown prince Naka No Ōe, who reigned later under the name of emperor Tenji, Nakatomi No Kamatari and the Kōtoku emperor worked jointly with the drafting of the details of the reform, which aimed to create a government centralized on the model Chinese of the Tang, to revise the system of the taxes and the administration, to create an highway network and postal and to redistribute the grounds (system Ritsuryô ).

The reform starts with the redistribution of the grounds, based on ideas confucéennes and imported philosophies of China, but its true goal is to centralize the country in order to increase the power of the imperial court, which is also based on the Chinese structure. Observers and students are sent in China to learn all from the written form, the religion, the literature, the architecture of the Chinese, and even of their dietetic practices of the time. The impact of these reform can still be considering today in the Japanese cultural life.

official centralization is reinforced little by little; the reform of Taika (645-649) defines of them the characters and of great codes pose some the legal bases. Taxes, distribution of the grounds, socioprofessional categories are established on the model Tang and a large capital, Heijôkyô, whose current Nara is only the Eastern suburb, is traced with the Chinese imitation of Tch' ang-Ngan. Palates and large Buddhist sanctuaries are built there according to the style of the continent.
an edict on the burials which prohibits large from building at the same time very beautiful tombs and very beautiful temples. The government supports the construction of the temples to the detriment of the tombs. Deaths are incinerated according to the Buddhist tradition. This article puts an end to construction Kofun .
Of the fronts and technicians Korean then Chinese come to teach the weaving of silk, goldsmithery, the art of the lacquer and the carpentry, and, gradually, the continental culture penetrates all the aspects of the public life: writing, arts, techniques. The imitation of China, the Buddhist atmosphere of faith make these years the first golden age of Japanese art. The big family of the Fujiwara takes a durable influence at the court while the Buddhist clergy becomes omnipresent.

Zh-classical: 大化革新

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