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    Asuka (明日香村, Asuka-mura) is a village located in Takaichi District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of April 1, 2017, the village has an estimated population...
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  • wrestler Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan Asuka, Yamato (飛鳥), an area in Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture)...
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    greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka region, about 25 km (16 mi) south of the modern city of Nara. The Asuka period is characterized...
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    820214°E / 34.478731; 135.820214 Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺), also known as Hōkō-ji (法興寺), is a Buddhist temple in Asuka, Nara. Asuka-dera is regarded as one of the...
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    its name from this place. It is located in the present-day village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture. Some of the many theories of what the place was named after...
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    jointly designated a Place of Scenic Beauty. Nara Prefecture Gose Sakurai Yamatotakada Kōryō Tawaramoto Asuka Takatori Kashihara has a humid subtropical...
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    listed below are based in Nara. Association football Asuka FC (Kashihara) Nara Club (Nara) Basketball Bambitious Nara (Nara) Many jinja (Shinto shrines)...
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    Nara (奈良市, Nara-shi, [naꜜɾa] ) is the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of 2022[update], Nara has an estimated population of 367,353 according...
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    Kengoshizuka Kofun is a Kofun in Asuka, Nara Japan. Specifically, it is an Octagonal Kofun. It is said to be the burial site of Empress Kōgyoku. it was...
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    Kofun (category Asuka period)
    2023-10-20. "Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties". www.nabunken.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-10-20. Hays, Jeffrey. "ASUKA, FUJIWARA AND ASUKA-ERA...
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    Asuka Historical National Government Park (国営飛鳥歴史公園, Kokuei Asuka Rekishi Kōen) is a National Government Park established in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan...
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    Mountains: Yoshino Mountain Rivers: Yoshino River Lakes: Lake Tsuburo Nara Prefecture Asuka Higashiyoshino Kawakami Kurotaki Ōyodo Sakurai Shimoichi Uda Yoshino...
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    Ishibutai Kofun (category Tourist attractions in Nara Prefecture)
    kofun (石舞台古墳) is a stone kofun or tumulus of the Asuka period in the east of Shimanoshō, Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The kofun is believed to be the...
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    Trajan's Column, Rome, Italy. Pedestal blocks: 77 t Ishibutai Kofun in Asuka, Nara, Japan. Largest stone, 75 tons. Pantheon, Rome, Italy. Granite columns...
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    Research Methodology Section Asuka Historical Museum (Asuka, Nara Prefecture) Curatorial Section Affairs Section The Nara National Research Institute for...
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    large statues of Buddha. The oldest is that at Asuka-dera (609) and the best-known is that at Tōdai-ji in Nara (752). The Tōdai-ji Daibutsu is a part of the...
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  • Emishi (category People of Asuka-period Japan)
    Emishi tribes resisted the rule of various Japanese emperors during the Asuka, Nara, and early Heian periods (7th–10th centuries CE). The origin of the Emishi...
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  • and around the late sixth- to early eighth-century capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara-kyō, Nara Prefecture, Japan. In 2007, twenty eight sites were submitted...
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  • Emperor Yūryaku Sakurai, Nara (Iware no Mikakuri Palace), 480–484 in reign of Emperor Seinei Asuka, Yamato (Chikatsu-Asuka-Yatsuri Palace), 485–487 in...
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    cover the southern and eastern parts of the city, Nara Prefecture Nara Kashihara Tenri Uda Tawaramoto Asuka Yoshino Sakurai has a humid subtropical climate...
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    ships are lost en route. Prince Tenji of Japan changes his residence to Asuka (Nara Prefecture), with other imperial family members and ministers. Only Emperor...
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    The Nara Prefecture Complex of Man'yo Culture (奈良県立万葉文化館, Nara-kenritsu Man'yō Bunkakan) is a museum located in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture in Japan...
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    The Asuka Historical Museum (飛鳥資料館, Asuka Shiryōkan) is a historical museum in Okuyama, Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The museum was founded in 1975...
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  • Man'yōshū (category Asuka period)
    thick. Lastly, a mokkan excavated at the Ishigami archaeological site in Asuka, Nara, contains the first 14 characters of poem 1391, in volume 7, written...
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    oldest known burial chamber was built between 220 and 230 CE in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, and called the Hokenoyama tomb. The tomb is 80 m long, and the...
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    Yamato period (category Asuka period)
    relocation of the capital to Asuka, in modern Nara Prefecture. However, the Kofun period is an archaeological period while the Asuka period is a historical...
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    Heijō-kyō (平城京, also Heizei-kyō, sometimes Nara no miyako) was the Capital of Japan during most of the Nara period, from 710 to 740 and again from 745...
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    Sendai-based Matsumoto Cycle) A.N. Design Works (Core Japan, Tokyo) Araya ARES Asuka (Nara) Baramon (Kurume) Campania Cherubim (Machida, Tokyo) Crafted (Fukui)...
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    of Poetry (三十六歌仙, Sanjūrokkasen) are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese...
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    especially for grain. Rivers : Takatori River, Soga River, Kibi River Nara Prefecture Asuka Gose Kashihara Ōyodo Yoshino Takatori has a humid subtropical climate...
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