Monday, February 9, 2015

Nara period

From the beginning of the 8th century to an end, it was called the Nara period.
The formation and deepening of the legal codes national polity were planned.

The legal codes nation of this time kept the people under control in a family register and a taxation register.

Japan often sent a Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty China and took culture in a continent such as the Tang in.
Buddhism-like culture prospered.
A historiography and the oldest literature for the in existence like the Kojiki(Records of Ancient Matters), Nohonshoki(Chronicles of Japan), and Manyoshu(the oldest anthology of Tanka), etc. appeared.

Sanze Isshin Law was enacted in 723.
The statute which accepted possession of land with a time limit.
The latifundism in this way developed.
And It was more advanced by Konden Einen Shizai Law(743).
But the person who could reclaim actually was an aristocrat and a local powerful family of shrines and temples.

Introduction of the So-Yo-Cho tax system.
So-Yo-Cho in Japan was a system modeled after China's.
The situation of Japan was taken into consideration, and it was reformed in the style of Japan and introduced.

The capital was transfered to Heiankyo in Kyoto in 794.