The aristocracy staved off a succession crisis in this period by exiling a priest of the Hosso sect named Dokyo, who had convinced the Empress Koken to abdicate in his favor.
The aristocracy staved off a succession crisis in this period by exiling a priest of the Hosso sect named Dokyo, who had convinced the Empress Koken to abdicate in his favor. The construction of the Todaiji Temple, which houses its namesake city's Daibatsu statue, was overseen by the Emperor Shomu, who sought to establish a Buddhist state. During this period, which saw the capital moved from its namesake city to Nagaoka ten years before its end, the Kojiki was compiled and much of Japan's cultural and political reforms were modeled after those of the Tang Dynasty. FTP, identify this Japanese historical period that lasted from 710 to 794 AD and fell between the Yamato and Heian periods.
The aristocracy staved off a succession crisis in this period by exiling a priest of the Hosso sect named Dokyo, who had convinced the Empress Koken to abdicate in his favor.
{Nara} Period