Events
- 710: Japan's capital is moved from Fujiwara-kyō to Heijō-kyō, modeled after China's capital Chang'an
- 712: The collection of tales Kojiki
- 717: The Hoshi Ryokan is founded, and it survives to become Japan's (and the world's) second oldest known hotel in 2012. (The oldest was founded in 705.)
- 720: The collection of tales Nihon Shoki
- 743: Emperor Shōmu issues a rescript to build the Daibutsu (Great Buddha), later to be completed and placed in Tōdai-ji, Nara
- 752: The Great Buddha(Daibutsu) at Tōdai-ji was completed
- 759: The poetic anthology Man'yōshū
- 784: The emperor moves the capital to Nagaoka
- 788: The Buddhist monk Saichō founds the monastery of Mt Hiei, near Kyoto, which becomes a vast ensemble of temples
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—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)