Kiyomihara Palace
The Kiyomihara Palace (also: Kiyomigahara; Japanese 飛鳥 浄 御 原 宮 , Asuka Kiyomihara no Miya ) was the residence of the Japanese emperors Temmu -tennō and Jitō -tennō in the period from 672 to 694. It is believed that the complex It was the largest palace of its kind in Japan to date and was probably located in what is now the village of Asuka in Nara Prefecture .
In 672, in the year of his accession to the throne, Temmu moved the imperial palace and thus also the capital of Japan from Ōmi-kyō , where his predecessor and nephew Kōbun -tennō had resided, back to Asuka-kyō . The Chinese-style law that Temmu introduced in 689 was named after his new Kiyomihara palace ( Asuka-Kiyomihara-Codex or Asuka-Kiyomigahara-ryō , see also ritsuryō ). After his death in 686, Jitō ruled from here for eight years until she moved with her court in the year 694 to the newly built capital Fujiwara-kyō , 2.5 km to the northeast .
After the Nihonshoki , the palace complex included an audience hall ( 大 極 殿 , Daigokuden ) as well as administrative offices of the civil service and archaeological finds suggest the existence of a sophisticated drainage system. Unusually shaped stone fountains have also been discovered during excavations (one probably represents Mount Meru in Buddhist mythology). A semi-urban capital district ( kyō ) developed around the palace , which was administered by the newly established capital city office ( Kyōshiki ).
The Man'yōshū contains the following poem, written by a leading statesman in Kammu's time, on the occasion of the move to the new capital:
「皇 者 神 尓 之 座 者 赤 駒 之 腹 婆 布 田 為 乎 京師 跡 奈 之 都」
"Ohokimi ha kami ni shimaseba akagoma no hara bafu tawi wo miyako to nashitsu"
“Our great king, God who he is, has transformed the swampy fields, where chestnut-brown horses, sunken up to their belly, once trotted into a magnificent capital. ( Our great king, god that he is, has turned into a splendid capital the marshy fields where chestnut horses, belly-deep, once trudged. ) "
Web links
literature
- William R. Carter: Asuka Kiyomihara no Miya , in: Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan , Vol. 1, Tokyo 1983, p. 107.
- Asuka Kiyomihara-no-Miya on the Asuka Historical Museum website .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d William R. Carter: Asuka Kiyomihara no Miya , in: Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan , Vol. 1, Tokyo 1983, p. 107.
- ↑ Kiyoshi Inoue : History of Japan , Frankfurt / Main: Campus-Verlag 1993, p. 54; Introduction to Hermann Bohner's “Legends from the Early Period of Japanese Buddhism” ( memento of the original from October 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Man'yōshū, Volume 19, vers 4260 ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Japanese Text Initiative. ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 34 ° 28 ′ 18.8 ″ N , 135 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ E