Region: Japan · Coordinates: 33.513, 130.524 · 46 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 698 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu is ordered to repair three castles: Ōno, Ki and Kikuchi. |
| AD 718 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu reports that the envoy to Tang Tajihi no Agatamori has returned. |
| AD 735 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | Many die of epidemic in the Dazaifu; offerings are made to the kami, sutra readings, medicine and relief are ordered. |
| AD 740 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | Dazaifu Vice-Governor Fujiwara no Hirotsugu submits a memorial stating the successes and failures of government and heavenly anomalies, and asks for the removal of Priest-Governor Genbō. |
| AD 740 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | Hirotsugu raises troops and rebels; Ōno no Azumahito is made commander-in-chief, and 17,000 troops from five circuits are levied to suppress him. |
| AD 742 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu is abolished and its public goods are handed over to the governor of Chikuzen. |
| AD 745 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu is re-established and Ishikawa no Kami is made Grand Assistant (dai-ni). |
| AD 752 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu reports that the Silla prince Kim Taeryeom and tribute envoy Kim Hwon, with over 700 people in seven ships, have arrived. |
| AD 757 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu sakimori (frontier guards) are to be supplied not by troops of the peninsula provinces but by 1,000 soldiers from the seven Saikaidō provinces. |
| AD 759 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The court orders the Dazaifu to establish march regulations with the aim of attacking Silla. |
| AD 762 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | Fujiwara no Mahikari is sent to entertain Tang people including Shen Weiyue at the Dazaifu. |
| AD 762 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | The Dazaifu is ordered to make helmets and face-guards (menshū) and armor, 20,250 pieces each, for the circuit commissioners of the Tōkai, Nankai and Saikai circuits (new Tang style). |
| AD 779 | Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) | An imperial order to the Dazaifu: the Silla envoy Kim Nanson and others came with a New Year tribute, but they are to be questioned on their reasons for entering court, including whether they carry a letter case. |
| AD 807 | Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) | An envoy was sent to offer the colored silks received from the Great Tang to Kashii-gū, as thanks for the return of the envoys. |
| AD 811 | Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) | Report from Dazaifu: three Silla men, Kim Pahyeong (金巴兄), Kim Seungje (金乘弟) and Kim Sopa (金小巴), said that while transporting rice they met pirates and all their companions died; wishing to return home, they asked to be sent back on the same ship. Permission was granted. |
| AD 816 | Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) | Report from Dazaifu: 180 Silla people, including Cheong Seokjin, came to be naturalized; they were ordered to be given clothing and travel provisions and to be taken to the capital by ship. |
| AD 834 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In February Silla people crossed the waves and anchored off the Dazaifu coast; because the people disliked them, they were shot with arrows and wounded. The Daijōkan censured the officials of the Fu, gave them medicine and food, and sent them home. The same day, the Tang mission's shipbuilding officer (zōhakushi) and equipment officer (sōsokushi) were appointed. |
| AD 836 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In October the envoy to Silla, Ki no Mitsu, returned to the Dazaifu. |
| AD 837 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In March Tang envoy Fujiwara no Tsunetsugu left the Rokurō-kan and set out for the Dazaifu (second attempt). |
| AD 837 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the eighth month, the Dazaifu reported that three of the Tang embassy ships had come back, and the upper envoys' memorials. |
| AD 838 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the third month, since the Tang embassies returned each year without crossing the sea, the Dazaifu had nine monks practicing in various countries ordained, to pray for the envoys' safety at the Kokubunji and Jingūji. |
| AD 838 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the seventh month, the Dazaifu reported that the first and fourth ships of the Tang embassy had set out. |
| AD 838 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the seventh month, the Dazaifu reported that the second ship of the Tang embassy had set out. |
| AD 839 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the seventh month, the Dazaifu was ordered to build a ship modeled on Silla ships, which withstand storms. |
| AD 839 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the eighth month, Ōmiwa no Munao, a recorder of the Tang embassy, submitted a memorandum to the Dazaifu: the three ships, distrusting the main vessel, borrowed nine Silla ships at Chuzhou and returned along the southern coast of Silla; Munao was on the sixth ship, and the others' whereabouts are unknown. |
| AD 841 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the second month, the Silla man Jang Bogo's gift of saddles, presented at the end of the twelfth month of last year, was judged a tribute offered without authority by another court's minister; by protocol it was refused and returned, but the accompanying goods were allowed private trade. |
| AD 842 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the eighth month, Fujiwara no Mamori, Grand Assistant of the Dazaifu, proposed four articles, the first a total ban on Silla people entering the capital; the court replied that castaways would be given food and sent back, and merchants sent home promptly after trading. |
| AD 844 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the sixth month, the Dazaifu presented a white crow. |
| AD 845 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the twelfth month, the Dazaifu urgently reported that a Silla man had arrived with two letters from Kang Province, bringing over fifty castaways of this country. |
| AD 848 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the third month, the court sent a middle envoy to welcome Ennin's return, along with his disciples Shōkai and Isei, who had arrived at Chinzei-fu in the tenth month of last year on a Silla merchant ship, and bestowed imperial bedding. |
| AD 848 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the fifth month, the Dazaifu presented a white tortoise. |
| AD 849 | Shoku Nihon Kōki | In the eighth month, urgent report from the Dazaifu: 53 Great Tang merchants arrived at this port in one ship, carrying much cargo. |
| AD 853 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the fifth month, on day 壬寅, Dazaifu is ordered to have the Daihannya sutra read at Kannon-ji, Miroku-ji, the Shiōin, Kashii-byō, and the Kokubun-ji within its jurisdiction. |
| AD 853 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the ninth month, on day 辛丑, more than 38,700 koku of grain is given to Dazaifu to relieve the smallpox patients in its jurisdiction. |
| AD 855 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the fourth month, on day 丙午, Dazaifu reports by post horse that Prince Tsugumine, governor of Hyūga, fell ill and tried to kill the pursuit officer (tsuihōshi) Taguchi no Fusatomi; he is stripped of rank and title. |
| AD 855 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the seventh month, on day 丙寅, Dazaifu forwards the memorial of the student monk Enzai (圓載), who went to Tang to study. |
| AD 856 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the third month, on day 壬子, Dazaifu reports that thirty Silla people drifted ashore; they were given food and sent back. |
| AD 858 | Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku | In the sixth month, on day 丁未, Dazaifu reports that on the first day of the fifth month a great wind and heavy rain destroyed all official residences and damaged nine provinces and two circuits (on the same day the armory of Kikuchi castle also burned). |
| AD 865 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | Dazaifu reports that 63 persons, including the Tang merchant Li Yanxiao, arrived on the coast on one ship. They are lodged at the Kōrokan and supplied according to custom. |
| AD 866 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | On the seventeenth day of the fourth month, the Onyōryō warns that a neighboring country's soldiers may be watching, and orders Dazaifu to set up guard; the governors of Buzen and Nagato are reprimanded for Tang people entering the capital at will. |
| AD 869 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | On the seventeenth day of the twelfth month, after last summer's plunder of tribute by Silla pirates, a strange event occurs: a large bird gathers at the Dazaifu office and the armory. The Jingikan and the Onyōryō divine that a neighboring country's war may come, so offerings are made in the provinces of the Five Capitals and Seven Circuits. |
| AD 869 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month, Right Guard Lieutenant Sakanoue no Takimori is sent to Dazaifu to handle prayers and vigilance. He proposes that, since Hakata is the port where neighboring ships gather, near the Kōrokan there be one commander (tōryō), forty ship soldiers (senshi) and forty suits of armor. |
| AD 870 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | On the thirteenth day of the eleventh month, Saeki Matsugu, a provisional clerk (gon-shisei) of Chikugo, presents a document from the king of Silla and accuses Fujiwara no Motorimaro, Dazai-shōni of Dazaifu, of conspiring with the Silla king to harm the country. Saeki is imprisoned by the kebiishi. |
| AD 880 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | Rumors spread that Silla bandits will invade from the western provinces. Sakanoue no Takimori, Left Palace Guards Lieutenant, is sent as Dazai-shōni, but the guards commit violence and disorder breaks out; his successor Fujiwara no Fusao is therefore transferred to the governorship of Higo because of the disorder. |
| AD 885 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | On the first day of the eighth month the Onyōryō divines military levies on the northern and western frontiers and orders guard duty (kego) in the Hokurikudō provinces, in Nagato, and at Dazaifu. |
| AD 885 | Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku | A Tang merchant arrives at Dazaifu. The deputy governor is ordered to forbid the envoy of Wang Xinjia and the officials and people of the district from competing to buy goods at high prices. |