Transfer of the capital to Heijō-kyō

Name: Transfer of the capital to Heijō-kyō
Start: 0710-01-01
End: 0710-12-31
Location: Nara

平城京遷都(へいじょうきょうせんと)

Event · transfer of the capital · 710 · Nara, Japan

Empress Genmei moved the capital to Heijō-kyō (Nara) in 7101. It begins the Nara period and ends the Asuka period (in the national institutions’ reading) and the Hakuhō period (in Mason’s). Mason 2005, pp. 40–41, und Wikipedia, Nara period, “Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō”. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Wikipedia, Nara period: Anon., Nara period, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_period (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).