Heijō-kyō
Heijō-kyō was the planned eighth-century capital centered on the Heijō Palace site in present-day Nara, interpreted through archaeology.
Nara Period
Nara
Nara is an ancient Japanese capital whose palace site, temples, shrines, literature, parkland, and modern neighborhoods form layered landscapes.
Man’yōshū
The Man’yōshū is Japan’s earliest surviving Japanese poetry anthology, preserving more than 4,500 poems from the seventh and eighth centuries.