Region: Japan · Coordinates: 34.685, 135.805 · 10 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 672 | Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) | General Ōtomo no Fukei fought the Ōmi commander Ōno no Hatayasu at Mount Nara and was defeated. |
| AD 717 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The envoy to Tang offers rites to the kami south of Mount Mikasa. |
| AD 746 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The sovereign, the retired sovereign and the empress visit Kinshōji and offer lamps before the Rushana Buddha (more than 15,700 lamps). |
| AD 749 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The sovereign visits Tōdai-ji and faces north before the Rushana image; Minister of the Left Tachibana no Moroe, by imperial order, reports to the Buddha. |
| AD 749 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | A negi (priest) of the Hachiman deity visits Tōdai-ji; the sovereign, the retired sovereign and the grand empress dowager also visit. Five thousand monks perform worship and sutra chanting. |
| AD 752 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The great Rushana Buddha image is completed and its eyes are opened. That day, ten thousand monks are invited to Tōdai-ji for a great Buddhist feast. |
| AD 777 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Tang-bound envoys offer sacrifices to the heavenly and earthly deities at the foot of Mount Kasuga; because they could not cross last year due to storms, Vice-envoy Ono no Ishine performed the sacrifice again. |
| AD 855 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the fifth month, on day 庚子, Tōdai-ji reports that the head of the Vairocana Great Buddha fell to the ground by itself. |
| AD 855 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the sixth month, on day 甲申, Councillor Fujiwara no Ujimune is sent to Tōdai-ji to see the fallen head of the Great Buddha. |
| AD 1181 | Azuma Kagami (Mirror of the East) | (1181) On the 18th day of the 1st month, word reached the Kantō that on the 28th day of the 12th month of the previous year, the temples and halls of Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji in Nanto had all been burned by the Taira, the fire reaching the great Buddha hall, and that more than a hundred people had burned to death. Inkage, a man of Mōri estate in Sagami province, brought the news. |