Asuka Historical Museum

About 1300 years ago, Asuka was home to Japan's ruling dynasty, the capital of the country. It was a unified national state was for the first time established in Japan. At that time our country adopted much of relatively matured cultural and administrative methodology of China and the Korean peninsula. The temple sites Kofun, Tamulus graves, stone figures and manmade reminders of the times are left behind in considerable number. The most important Kanji were the "Four Great Temples" of the day, namely Vakushiji, Asukadera, Daikandaiji and Kawaradera. Tenmu's reign came into being a system of designing certain temples as "Official temples" Kanji, for purposes of exercising a certain amount of co-ordination over the activities of priests and nuns and for purposes of co-ordinating nationwide Buddhist festivities.