Isshi Incident
Event · 13 July 645 · Itabuki Palace, Japan
The coup of 645 in which Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari overthrew the main line of the Soga clan; it opened the Taika Reform. Mason ends the Asuka period and begins the Hakuhō period with it1. Mason 2005, p. 10. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.