Heijō-kyō
Heijō-kyō (平城京, also Heizei-kyō, sometimes Nara no miyako), was the capital city of Japan during most of the Nara period, from 710–40 and again from 745–84. The imperial palace is a listed UNESCO World Heritage together with other places in the city of Nara (cf. Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara).
Empress Gemmei ordered the Imperial capital moved from Fujiwara-kyō to Heijō-kyō in 708, and the move to Heijō-kyō was complete in 710. Heijō-kyō was modeled after Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty China, although Heijō-kyō lacked walls. In the city, merchants and traders from China, Korea and India introduced various foreign cultures to Heijō-kyō through the Silk Road. As a result, Heijō-kyō flourished as Japan's first international and political capital, with a peak population of approximately 100,000. The overall form of the city was an irregular rectangle, and the area of city is more than 25 km2.
Architecture
In the area of Heijō-kyō, there are ancient Buddhist temples, and that some temples is also a listed UNESCO World Heritage together with Heijō Palace.
Podcasts:
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Hijack
by: Jefferson StarshipThe summer was dry like your nose when you've been behind coke for a day and a season We sail out into the grasshopper nite and we seek the righteous poison Sunday morning in speedway, y'know the people come around for a reason SUNDAY MORNIN SUNDAY MORNIN The land is green and you make it grow, go to the forest and move The sound of thundering electrical energy calls us to the park in the noon C'mon anybody-now fill my pipe * to the park * to the forest and move
When I feel you coming round me - ridin in the sun Goin home move your mind toward Mars and then beyond Genesis is not the answer to what we had before I we altogether in you
You know I remember the 23rd of November In the abyss of Chicago you can see the barbed wire - pigs around a lot of nothin The witch hunters wail and they bark and they wheeze and they try to turn us into their poison
You know - a starship circlin in the sky - it ought to be ready by 1990 They'll be buildin it up in the air even since 1980 People with a clever plan can assume the role of the mighty and HIJACK THE STARSHIP Carry 7000 people past the sun And our babes'll wander naked thru the cities of the universe Cmon free minds, free bodies, free dope, free music the day is on its way the day is ours
You breathe out You breathe in And the glow of the machine'll get you on Moving slow, don't fear the changes Gracefully growing - as wild as we can be
Only the sun knows what we really need to know Only the sun holds the secret And more than human can we be Cause human's truly locked To this planetary circle
You gotta ride said the Doktor of space I have lived here once before The lites in the nite are a village of stars Of stars that I have explored Beyond the idea of beyond the void And beyond that and more Parallel lines in this village of stars Will lead you to the second door Time won't wait for the Doktor of space from the city of the sun to come
WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE CHAOS OR COMMUNITY CAN'T YOU SEE - ON THIS AND FUTURE SUNDAYS