Nagaoka-kyÅ
Nagaoka - kyō (Japanese长 冈 京, dt "imperial residence city Nagaoka " ) was 784-794 the capital of Japan. Their traditional location was the Otokuni-gun/Otokuni no Kori in the province of Yamashiro. The present situation in the prefecture of Kyoto is the city Nagaokakyo, which was formed in 1949 from three villages, the southern half of Muko, as well as small parts of the neighboring district of Kyoto Nishikyo -ku in the north- west. Both the three villages and Muko were in Otokuni -gun.
History
784 Kammu moved the - tennō the capital of Japan from Heijo - kyō in Nagaoka - kyō after. Shoku Nihongi After the reason for the move was the better transportation options via the rivers. However, it also played an escape from the Buddhist influence and the hostility towards his Korean mother on the old farm a role.
785 was the commissioner for the new capital, Fujiwara no Tanetsugu (藤原 种 継), was murdered. The brother of the Tennō, Prince Sawara (早 良 亲王, Sawara - shinnō ), who was involved, was exiled to the province of Awaji, but died on the way there. Already in 794 Kammu moved the capital to Heian - tennō the - kyō. Reasons for the re- transfer of the capital were the constant flooding from the rivers, the resulting illnesses that befell the wife of Tennō and the Crown Prince, as well as the fear of the vengeance of the late Prince Sawara.
Up to the excavations by the secondary school teacher Shuichi Nakayama (中山 修 一) in 1954 Nagaoka - kyō was held for a phantom capital.