PersonAD 737 – AD 806
Emperor Kanmu
Also called: Kanmu Tennō
Japanese emperor (r. 781–806) who moved the capital to Nagaoka-kyō in 784 and to Heian-kyō in 794, opening the Heian period; his mother came from an immigrant family of Baekje descent
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Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto) in 794, opening the Heian period. After embassies to the Tang stopped in 894, a distinctly Japanese “national style” culture developed, written in the kana syllabaries.
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- Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979
From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model