・The “Makimukai Ruins,” which appeared in the Nara Basin, are seen as a large-scale urban settlement that flourished from 180 to 350. The administration based in Makimukai believed in Omononushi, the god of Mount Miwa (Sakurai City). Omiwa Shrine in the same area has no main shrine because Mount Miwa is the object of worship (p41)
・ In the 5th century, the five kings of the Yamato (Yamato administration) called Xian (Xiazhong, Jintoku), Zhen (Hanzheng, Jintoku), Zi (Benkyo), Xing (Ankang), and Wu (Yu short) sent messengers to Song in the southern Chinese dynasty a total of 10 times (p48)
・The island created by the birth of a nation is slightly different in the “Kojiki” and “Nihonshoki,” but Awaji Island is ranked first in both, and Honshu is second in the Nihonshoki, but it is last (8th) in the Kojiki (p57)
・The seven main shrines that enshrine giant kuninushi: Keta Hongu (Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture), Omae Shrine (Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture), Okunitama Shrine (Fuchu City, Tokyo), Omiwa Shrine (Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture), Keta Taisha (Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture), Izumo Grand Shrine (Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture), and Izumo Taisha (Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture) (p63)
・When Soga Iname, which was in dispute within the Yamato administration, proposed acceptance, saying “only our country cannot afford to reject it,” Mononobe Ogoshi and Nakatomi Kamako directly opposed it, saying “if you worship a foreign god, it will cause the anger of ancient gods in our country.” Among these differences of opinion, there was also a conflict between the political positions of the Soga clan of the Kaimei faction, which ties with immigrants, and the Monobe clan, an old intellectual who presides over Jinbae (p80)
・Asuka-dera Temple (Hoko-ji Temple, Nara), Horyuji Temple (Ikaruga-ji Temple, Nara), and Shitennoji (Osaka) were Buddhist temples (garan arrangement) in the Aska period (p85)
・In 645, the first era name was established and designated as “Taika,” but it was after the Tenmu dynasty that the era name became established (p106)
・Under the ritsuryo system, administrative districts called the Goki Seven Dos (Goki: Yamato, Yamase, Settsu, Kawachi, Izumi, Seven Dos: Higashiyama Road, Tokaido, Hokuriku Road, Nankaido, Sanin Road, Sanyo Road, and Saikaido) were established, and regional administrative organizations for countries, counties, and villages were established. As a general rule, a provincial governor with a term of 6 years was dispatched from the central government to the country. The place where the kokushi is in charge of government affairs is the Kokufu, and a majestic building imitating Heijokyo was prepared. The county is composed of several “villages” consisting of 50 houses, and the top one is the “gunji,” and as a general rule, the gunji is selected from the local ruling class and descendants of the national construction in a tenure system, and plays a role in tax collection, etc. (p136)
・Under the Kanden Taxation Act based on the ritsuryo system, allotment is paid. A “rent” was imposed to store about 3% of the harvest, 2 bundles of rice per tier, and in addition, there was also a “recruitment” of “zaoyo” soldiers who provided “labor force” to pay products etc. from “subdued” land to store cloth, etc. (p138)
