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| | Nara period - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | The Empress Gemmei established the capital at Nara, also known as Heijo kyo, where it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until the Emperor Kammu established the new capital at Nagaoka (and, only a decade later, Heian, or Kyoto). |
| | Some of Japan's literary monuments were written during the Nara period, including the Kojiki and Nihongi, the first national histories compiled in 712 and 720, respectively; the Man'yoshō (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), an anthology of poems; and the Kaifuso (Fond Recollections of Poetry), an anthology written in Chinese by Japanese emperors and princes. |
| | Japan welcomed the Bohai mission, for the kingdom was a kind of restoration of the ancient kingdom of Koguryo with which Japan was allied until Koguryo was conquered by Tang and Silla in 668. |
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