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On the 14th and 15th of the month is the year’s second lighting-up of the thousands of lanterns at Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara.
If for nothing else, Yoritomo earns our admiration for his determination to create a “Seated Buddha” for his capital to rival the huge bronze figure made in 749 for Todaiji temple in Nara.
Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).
The era known as the Nara Period was marked by the religious fervor of the Buddhist monks and also by their accompanying artistic achievements.
For a thousand years, Kyoto served as the cultural and spiritual capital of Japanese civilization, the home of its revered emperors after the Nara period from the end of the 8th century up to the Meiji Restoration in the late-19th century.