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13-530: The Shoku Nihongi records that in 741, as the country recovered from a major smallpox epidemic , Emperor Shōmu ordered that a monastery and nunnery be established in every province , the kokubunji ( 国分寺 ) . The Tajima Kokubun-ji is located in the Kokufu Plain formed by the Maruyama River in the southern part of Toyooka City. The current precincts overlap with the ruins of ancient provincial temple, and

26-589: A shōen landed estate controlled by the " Hosshō-ji clan", which received tax exemption from Northern Court Emperor Kōgon in 1338. It was the site of number of battles during the Nanboku-chō period and was often referred to as "Kokubunji Castle", although a temple also remained on the site, as other documents indicate that it became a subsidiary of Saidai-ji in Nara in 1381. In 1580, Toyotomi Hidenaga defeated Ōtsubo Matashirō during his conquest of Tajima Province, and

39-480: A Japanese form of Classical Chinese , as was normal for formal Japanese texts at the time. However, a number of senmyō ( 宣命 ) or "imperial edicts" contained within the text are written in a script known as "senmyō-gaki", which preserves particles and verb endings phonographically. This article about a non-fiction book on Japanese history is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ebara Station Ebara Station ( 江原駅 , Ebara-eki )

52-595: A South Gate, Central Gate, Kondō and Kōdō (Lecture Hall) in a straight line from south to north. A cloister extended from the sides of the Middle Gate to the Main Hall, and the Pagoda was located 50 meters to the west of the Main Hall. Judging from the size and layout of the foundation, the pagoda was a seven-story structure. In the southeast corner of the compound, the remains of an enclosing wall and moat have been found. Per

65-521: A corridor (more than 70 meters north-south) has been found to the east of the Main Hall. This is the first example of a building other than a Main Hall with a corridor found at any kokubunji site, and the function of the building remains uncertain. Recovered artifacts, including many roof tiles , earthenware and wooden items are preserved at the Museum of Tajima Kokufu and Kokubunji ( 但馬国府・国分寺館 ) at site The temple

78-500: A lightning strike in 777. The temple is listed in the Engishiki records of 927 as having a revenue of 20,000 bundles of rice. As with most of the kokubun-ji around the country, the temple fell into decline with the collapse of central government authority at the end of the Heian period, and its subsequent history becomes confused. Per a document dated 1285, it appears that the temple had become

91-580: Is a passenger railway station located in the city of Toyooka , Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan , operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Ebara Station is served by the San'in Main Line , and is located 138.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kyoto . The station consists of one ground-level island platform with an elevated station building. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. Ebara Station opened on July 10, 1909. With

104-703: Is located a five-minute walk from Ebara Station on the JR West San'yo Main Line railway. [REDACTED] Media related to Tajima Kokubunji at Wikimedia Commons Shoku Nihongi The Shoku Nihongi ( 続日本紀 ) is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the Six National Histories , coming directly after the Nihon Shoki and followed by Nihon Kōki . Fujiwara no Tsugutada and Sugano no Mamichi served as

117-451: Is mentioned in an entry in the " Shoku Nihongi " dated 756, so it must have been built soon after Emperor Shōmu's proclamation of 741. Archaeologically, dendrochronology on wood found in a well on the site yielded a date of 763, and a wooden tablet found at the site estimated to date from 767 to 770 lists some of the temple's organization, staffing and structures, including a pagoda , which another wooden tablet lists as having been damaged by

130-410: The primary editors. It is one of the most important primary historical sources for information about Japan's Nara period . The work covers the 95-year period from the beginning of Emperor Monmu 's reign in 697 until the 10th year of Emperor Kanmu 's reign in 791, spanning nine imperial reigns. It was completed in 797 AD. The text is forty volumes in length. It is primarily written in kanbun ,

143-621: The ruins of Kokubun-niji provincial nunnery are located about one kilometer to the north. In addition, the Narafugamori site, which is presumed to be the remains of the provincial capital after the Heian period , is also located in the vicinity (the location of the capital before the Heian period is unknown). The precise date of the construction of the Tajima Kokubun-ji has not been confirmed from archaeological materials or literature, however, it

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156-400: The standardized " Shichidō garan " layout of buildings, similar to Tōdai-ji in Nara , upon which the kokubunji temples were based, other structures such as a sutra library and bell tower should have existed, but these foundations have not been found, and not all of the foundation stones served by Ino Tadataka in 1814 remain in situ. On the other hand, the foundations of a large building with

169-440: The temple burned down during that struggle. It appears that the site remained in ruins until the temple was revived in 1759. In 1814, Ino Tadataka surveyed the area, leaving a record of the location of the temple's remains and that of the provincial nunnery. The site of the ancient temple was first excavated in 1973, and excavations continued 34 times through 2016. The temple occupied and area 160 meters square, and consisted of

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