Editing Kyoto (section)

==Name==
In Japanese, Kyoto was previously called '''Kyō''' ({{lang|ja|京}}), '''Miyako''' ({{lang|ja|都}}), '''Kyō no Miyako''' ({{lang|ja|京の都}}), and {{Nihongo|'''Keishi'''|{{linktext|京師}}}}. After becoming the capital of Japan at the start of the [[Heian period]] (794–1185), the city was often referred to as [[Heian-kyō]] ({{lang|ja|平安京}}, "Heian capital"), and late in the Heian period the city came to be widely referred to simply as "Kyōto" ({{lang|ja|京都}}, "capital city"). After the seat of the emperor was moved to the city of [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]] and that city was renamed "[[Tokyo|Tōkyō]]" ({{Nihongo2|東京}}, meaning "eastern capital"), Kyoto was briefly known as "Saikyō" ({{Nihongo2|西京}}, meaning "western capital"). As the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868, Kyoto is sometimes called the '''thousand-year capital''' ({{lang|ja|千年の都}}).

Historically, foreign spellings for the city's name have included '''Kioto''' and '''Miaco''' or '''Meaco'''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Editorial Paragraphs |magazine=The Missionary Herald |publication-date=April 1887 |volume=83 |issue=4 |page=126}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Nussbaum |first=Louis-Frédéric |date=2002 |translator-last=Roth |translator-first=Käthe |title=Japan Encyclopedia |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |pages=649 |isbn=9780674017535}}</ref>