飛鳥

Region: Japan · Coordinates: 34.482, 135.813 · 8 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
AD 606Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the fourth month of the fourteenth year, the sixteen-foot bronze Buddha image is completed and enshrined in the main hall of Gangō-ji, but the image was taller than the gate
AD 626Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the fifth month of the thirty-fourth year, Soga no Umako dies and is buried at the Momohara tomb
AD 653Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the fourth year of Hakuchi (653), the crown prince leads the Imperial Grandmother, Empress Hashihito and the imperial princes to a temporary palace on the bank of the Asuka River in Yamato
AD 656Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the second year of Saimei, the palace site is set again at Okamoto in Asuka
AD 656Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)A palace is built and the emperor moves there, named the Old Asuka Okamoto palace; beside two zelkova trees on Tamune hill, a walled enclosure and a coffin are prepared
AD 657Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the seventh month of the third year, a Sumeru (Mount Meru)-shaped structure is built west of Asukadera, the Urabon rite is held, and the people of Tamna (耽羅) are entertained
AD 673Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)In the second month of Tenmu 2 (673), the emperor set up an altar and ascended the throne at Kiyomihara palace in Asuka.
AD 703Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan)A posthumous title, 'Ōyamato Nenoame no Hironohime no Mikoto' (大倭根子天之廣野日女尊), is conferred, and that day she is cremated on Asuka hill.
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