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	Asuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aska (singer-songwriter) (born Ryo Aska (Asuka Ryō)), a Japanese singer-songwriter, formerly one of the CHAGE and ASKA duo.
		Asuka (erotic actress) is the pseudonym of a Japanese erotic actress.
		Asuka is a former girlfriend of Yoji's in Weiss Kreuz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asuka (397 words)

	The Asia Rice Foundation: Japan Rice Articles
		This tiny picturesque village in Nara Prefecture was the site of the Emperor's palace for 100 years, from the late sixth century.
		During the Asuka Period (A.D. 593-710), various cultural and artistic influences, not to mention Buddhism, were imported from other countries, principally Korea.
		Fresh evidence of Asuka's rich heritage is constantly coming to light with the discovery of archaeological finds in the area.
	www.asiarice.org /sections/whatsnew/Japan24.html (581 words)

	Nara period Summary
		The conclusion of the Nara period was marked by an imperial decision to abandon the capital at Nara in favor of constructing a new capital at Heian-kyo, modern-day Kyoto.
		The Tōdaiji was the kokubunji of Yamato Province (大和国, present-day Nara Prefecture, 奈良県).
		Her actions shocked Nara society and led to the exclusion of women from imperial succession and the removal of Buddhist priests from positions of political authority.
	www.bookrags.com /Nara_period (2111 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nara is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the
		Nara is located in the north of Nara Basin where the fledging Japanese state was born in prehistoric times.
		In the modern age, Nara developed as a local center of commerce and government, for the prefectural government was seated here.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Nara,_Nara.html (256 words)

	Introduction to the Heian Period: The Asuka and Nara Periods
		The Nara period began in 710 when the Empress Genmei declared that the capital would move to Nara, and ended in 784.
		Politics in the Nara period in particular were dominated by a succession of strong female sovereigns.
		The last emporer of the Nara period, Kanmu, in fact moved the capital away from Nara to escape the influence of the Buddhist clergy.
	www.courses.psu.edu /spcom/spcom483_sdp2/lectures/Bill/intro.html (1610 words)

	Asuka - encyclopedia article about Asuka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Asuka, Nara is a village in Japan's Nara Prefecture.
		Asuka Langley Soryu is a character in the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
		Asuka is the second album by Japanese traditional/pop-rock group Rin'.
	www.dr-science.org /wiki/Asuka (321 words)

	WebMuseum: Asuka and Nara Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the Asuka and Nara periods, so named because the seat of Japanese government was located in the Asuka Valley from 552 to 710 and in the city of Nara until 784, the first significant invasion by Asian continental culture took place in Japan.
		Throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, however, the major focus in contacts between Japan and the Asian continent was the development of Buddhism.
		Constructed as the headquarters for a network of temples in each of the provinces, the Todai-ji is the most ambitious religious complex erected in the early centuries of Buddhist worship in Japan.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/tl/japan/akusa-nara.html (526 words)

	Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Asuka Area, Nara
		The center of the area is Asuka Village, which has numerous sites of the Jomon Period (10,000 to 400 BC) and sites of the Asuka Period (from the end of the 6th c to 710) piled up on older sites.
		In the Asuka Period, people began to slough off the period of the ancient burial mounds, with Buddhism and the Korean Culture and the Chinese Culture.
		Asuka-dera Temple (飛鳥寺), 682 Asuka, Asuka Village, is the oldest Japanese Buddhist temple built in 606 AD by Korean artisans from Paekche (百済) at Umako Soga (蘇我馬子)'s request in 588.
	p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Japan_pics/Japan_NAS/imageidx.html (4242 words)

	Randy's 'Favorite Getaways in Rural Japan' p 6
		Asuka (AH-suka) village and nearby Kashiwara Jingu (shrine) are in the heart of the ancient Yamato country, historically the birthplace of the Japanese Empire and its ancient imperial courts.
		Asuka was first mentioned by name in the chronicles as being established as the seat of the new Emperor Kenzo, in 485 AD.
		The name of Asuka was chosen for this period because so much historical and legendary evidence is found here, and certainly there were several imperial courts in and near present-day Asuka during this period.
	ease.com /~randyj/rjjapan3.htm (6840 words)

	Asuka
		During the Asuka Period, various factors contributed to the enhancement of Japanese politics and culture.
		Asuka Daibutu, the Shaka triad produced by Kura-tukurino-Tori, is one of the best Buddha arts at that time.
		The Asuka Period came to an end when the capital was moved to another area under Empress Genmei.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/asuka/asuka-period.html (1141 words)

	White Noise, Red Sun: Nara
		This temple is surrounded by Nara park, which makes it a really fun walk to the temple.
		Cause Nara park is famous for the hundreds of free-roaming tame deer that live there (see below).
		We stopped to see Gangoji, the first Buddhist temple to come to Japan (originally built in Asuka, Nara in 588 ad, it was moved to Nara city in 710ad).
	redsun.gmby.net /2006/01/nara.html (378 words)

	Special English Class by Kenji Kitao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nara civilization was@between@seventh@and@ninth@century.@These@have@some@similarities@and@differences,@and temples@show@them clearly.@Though Buddhism influenced temples of Asuka civilization and Nara civilization, they have differences.
		There were gate, tower and special building near the temple, between Asuka and Nara civilization the position of a temple was different.
		Asuka and Nara City are in same prefecture, Nara-ken, so Asuka is near Nara City.
	www.cis.doshisha.ac.jp /kkitao/library/student/98/d410/terasawa4.htm (280 words)

	Digital archiving of Kamegata-Ishi(Turtle shape stone) using data fusion of heterogeneous measurements
		Kamegata-Ishi (Turtle Shape Stone) is the curious-shaped stone monument, which was excavated from the Sakafune-Ishi ruins (Asuka, Nara, Japan) on January 11, 2000 (Aizawa, 2000).
		The bowl-like shape of the stone indicates that the ancients in the Asuka era seemed to fill Kamegata-Ishi with water during their rite.
		In the Asuka era, a large number of peculiar stone monuments that seemed to be related to water were constructed.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/archaeology/general/archg0013.htm (663 words)

	Ancient coins alter Japan's cash history
		According to the Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, the coins, discovered last August at the Asukaike Ruins in Asuka, are older than the Wado Kaichin coins first minted in 708, thus bumping them from the archaeological record books as the nation's first circulated money.
		According to the Nara institute, six of the 33 coins were unearthed intact, while others were found in pieces.
		The ruins are located near Asuka Temple, Japan's first large-scale Buddhist structure, which belonged to the Soga family, a powerful clan in the region until the mid-seventh century.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news102.htm (681 words)

	Astronomy Sites in Asuka
		The Asuka area, south of Nara, is one of the most historically rich in Japan.
		Several palaces (such as Fujiwara Kyo, Asuka Itabuki no Miya, and Kiyomi Hara no Miya) can also be seen in the Asuka area, and each of these seems to bear the same mark of Chinese influence mentioned earlier, a mark which was only gaining momentum in the prime of Japan's Asuka Era.
		Dotted about the hills and small farms of the Asuka area are a number of stone relics and monuments, many of them shrouded in mystery relative to their date of construction and original function.
	www2.gol.com /users/stever/asukas.htm (1581 words)

	Asuka and Nara Periods (538-794) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Heijokyo in Nara was chosen to serve this purpose in 710.
		Chinese precedent can again be seen in the decision by the Japanese court to adopt Buddhism as the official religion and begin the faith's most active period of imperial patronage, constructing large temples in the capital, as well as many others in the provinces throughout the country.
		Only three-quarters of a century after Nara was built at enormous cost, the capital was moved again, motivated at least in part by a desire to escape the burdensome pressure of the Buddhist temples, which had grown wealthy and powerful.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/asna/hd_asna.htm (457 words)

	Japanese Gardens - Origins
		Except for a few archaeological sites in the region of Asuka, Nara, and Kyoto—many of them difficult to date—little remains of the gardens of early Japan, although certain texts like the eighth-century Nihon Shoki (Chronicle of Japan) provide some notion of their significance.
		These references, often in the form of stones or stone groupings, would continue to play a role in Japanese garden design for the rest of its history, although it is not always possible to know whether such references are intentional on the part of the designer or simply the product of later interpretations.
		Recent archaeological excavations in the ancient capital of Nara have brought to light the remains of two eighth-century gardens associated with the Imperial Court, a pond-and-stream garden—To-in—located within the precinct of the Imperial Palace and a stream garden—Kyuseki—found within the modern city.
	learn.bowdoin.edu /japanesegardens/origins.html (1690 words)

	奈良文化財研究所>for english
		The National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara, was founded in 1952 as an auxiliary organization of the National Commission for Protection of Cultural Properties, the predecessor of the current Agency for Cultural Affairs, with a view to conducting research on cultural properties.
		In 1973, the Division of the Asuka/Fujiwara Palace Site Investigations was established, and in 1975, the Asuka Historical Museum was opened, prompted by a Cabinet resolution made in 1970 as part of the government's efforts to preserve the cultural properties of the Asuka area.
		Consequently, the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo and the Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute were integrated and reorganized as branches of the Independent Administrative Institution in April 2001.
	www.nabunken.go.jp /english/his00.html (442 words)

	Japanese Buddhism: a Short History
		Only in 588 the first large scale temple was built, in Asuka, the capital of that time.
		During the past one thousand years the Nara religions have lost their power and supporters.
		Tsukamoto [2] has published a useful survey on Buddhism during Asuka and Nara eras.
	www.shinshufin.info /japbuddh.htm (1472 words)

	Otsu City, Shiga prefecture
		As the crown prince to Empress Saimei, his mother, Emperor Tenchi (626-671) moved the nation capital to Otsu City in 667 from Asuka, Nara Prefecture.
		Emperor Tenchi's younger brother, Prince Oama initially respected the decision, excusing himself to Yoshino in Nara to study Taoism and become a priest.
		Prince Oama ascended to the throne as Emperor Temmu, the country's 40th, after which he moved the capital to Asuka in Nara ending Otsu City's role as Japan's capital after only five years.
	www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/shiga/otsu.html (874 words)

	Asian Art and Architecture: Art & Design 382/582
		By sea it is around a thousand miles from Nara to Shanghai on the Chinese coast, of these two resolutely committed seafaring nations.
		The Asuka period begins with the introduction of Buddhism.
		Though Lee takes the conventional, and not wholely unreasonable, step of interpreting this imagery as a provincial Chinese expression, I will treat it as something else that he would not quarel with, and that indeed is a large part of his own presentation: as if it were simply Japanese.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~tart/arth382/lecture23.html (4433 words)

	Asuka sluice find backs H₂0 theories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		(Kyodo) Researchers have excavated an ancient stone sluiceway among the Sakafuneishi ruins in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, which they believe channeled water from a spring to the turtle-shaped basin found earlier this year, the Asuka Village Board of education announced Wednesday.
		Various sculpted stone objects believed to be evidence of the existence of a water source near the ruins of the seventh-century Asukakyo palace had already been unearthed at the site.
		OSAKA - Archaeologists on Wednesday dig around an ancient turtle-shaped stone basin and adjacent enclosure that is believed to have been the source of a spring.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news200.htm (262 words)

	Digital Archiving of Kamegata-Ishi (Turtle Shape Stone) using Data Fusion of Heterogeneous Measurements
		On the other hand, the information of surrounded environment is one of great cues for investigating the purpose of the stone.
		The authors also obtained the image of surrounded scenery from an omni directional camera and projected the reconstructed model with scenery onto a cylindrical immersive screen (diameter 6.0m, height 2.7m) at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
		This research is in cooperation with Asuka Village (Nara, Japan) and Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /events/isprs/2001/ts3/isprs3003pf.htm (1155 words)

	Asuka
		The process of developing this nation state is documented in the history of the Asuka period under excavation in and around Nara Ken. It truely is a remarkable story of cultural assimilation, involving migration of tens of thousands both within and from outside the borders.
		Early in the Asuka Period the Palace Cage was held by local Soga Clan leaders.
		They were simple, small structures built in the clan leaders territory, a sort of a 'backyard birdcage'.
	terryq14.tripod.com /Asuka/history.htm (665 words)

	Surnames Index Page
		Royal Families of the Asuka, Nara, Kyoto Regions with apologies to history.
		With gratitude to the people of Nara, the Nara Historical Museum, and to the Museums, Shrines Temples and Research Institutes that sparked my investigations.
		The Nara Royal Families Data Base was published on line by Terrence Quinn following a facinating year of Reikishi Kaido exploring in Asuka, Nara and Kyoto.
	terryq14.tripod.com /Yamato/surnames.htm (155 words)

	History of Shiga Prefecture - PHOTOGUIDE.JP
		667: Emperor Tenji (天智天皇) moves the Imperial Capital from Asuka, Nara to Otsu.
		The capital is moved back to Asuka, Nara.
		Emperor Tenchi - Moved the Imperial capital from Asuka, Nara to Otsu in 667.
	photoguide.jp /txt/History_of_Shiga_Prefecture (3388 words)

	Asuka - Nara Period
		Emperor Temmu moves the Imperial capital from Otsu back to the Asuka region (Yamato).
		The Imperial court compiles the Taiho administrative and penal code.
		The Imperial court moves from Fujiwara to Nara (Heijo); the
	www.samurai-archives.com /asuka.html (298 words)

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		Asukadera Temple constructed by this time (Asuka Culture).
		The Asuka Culture flourished as Japan's first Buddhist culture during the first half of the 7th century.
		Large-scale temples in the Asuka style include Asukadera, of which construction was initiated by Soga no Umako, and Shitennoji and Horyu-ji, which were both constructed by the order of Prince Shotoku.
	www.kiis.or.jp /rekishi/history-e.html (1103 words)

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