Nagaoka-kyō
Nagaoka-kyō ( Japanese 長 岡 京 , German "Imperial Residence City Nagaoka") was the capital of Japan from 784 to 794 . Their traditional location was the Otokuni-gun / Otokuni no kōri in the province of Yamashiro . The current location in Kyoto prefecture is the city of Nagaokakyō , which was formed from three villages in 1949, the southern half of Mukō , and small parts of the neighboring Kyoto district of Nishikyō-ku in the northwest. Both the three villages and Mukō were in the Otokuni-gun.
history
In 784 the Kammu - tennō moved the capital of Japan from Heijō-kyō to Nagaoka-kyō. After the Shoku Nihongi , the reason for the relocation was the better means of transport across the rivers. However, an escape from Buddhist influence and hostilities towards his Korean mother at the old court also played a role.
In 785 the commissioner for the new capital, Fujiwara no Tanetsugu ( 藤原 種 継 ), was murdered. The brother of the Tennō, Prince Sawara ( 早 良 親王 , Sawara-shinnō ), who was involved in it, was exiled to the province of Awaji , but died on the way there. As early as 794, the Kammu-tennō moved the capital to Heian-kyō . Reasons for the renewed relocation of the capital were the constant flooding by the rivers, the resulting diseases, which also afflicted the wife of Tenno and the crown prince, as well as the fear of the revenge of the late Prince Sawara.
Until the excavations by the high school teacher Shuichi Nakayama ( 中山 修 一 ) in 1954, Nagaoka-kyō was considered a phantom capital .
Web links
- Nagaoka-kyō Information from Mukō City (Japanese)
Coordinates: 34 ° 56 ′ 35.5 " N , 135 ° 42 ′ 11.6" E