Editing Nara period (section)

==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 called the {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Kojiki]]}} is published.
*717: The [[Hōshi 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 called the {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Nihon Shoki]]}} is published.
*735–737: A [[735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic|devastating smallpox epidemic]] spread from Kyushu to eastern Honshu and Nara, killing an estimated one-third of the Japanese population in these areas.<ref name=Suzuki>{{Cite journal | last = Suzuki | first = Akihito |date=July 2011 | title = Smallpox and the Epidemiological Heritage of Modern Japan: Towards a Total History | journal = [[Medical History (journal)|Medical History]] | volume = 55 | issue = 3 | pages = 313–318 | pmc = 3143877 | pmid = 21792253 | doi = 10.1017/S0025727300005329 }}</ref><ref name=farris>{{Cite book| last = Farris | first =William Wayne | title = The Historical Demography of Japan to 1700 (Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History)  | publisher = Routledge | year = 2017 | location = Abingdon, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-0415707022  | pages = 252–253}}</ref>  The epidemic is said to have led to the construction of several prominent Buddhist structures during this time period as a form of appeasement.<ref name=Kohn>{{Cite book| last = Kohn | first =George C. | title = Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present  | publisher = Checkmark Books | year = 2002 | location = Princeton, New Jersey  | isbn = 978-0816048939  | page = 213}}</ref><ref name=Jannetta>{{Cite book| last = Jannetta | first =Ann Bowman | title = Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan  | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2014 | location = New York, New York  | isbn = 978-0816048939  | pages = 65=67}}</ref>
*743: [[Emperor Shōmu]] issues a rescript to build the ''Daibutsu'' (Great Buddha), later to be completed and placed in [[Tōdai-ji]], [[Nara, Nara|Nara]].
*752: The Great Buddha ([[Daibutsu]]) at Tōdai-ji is completed.
*759: The poetic anthology {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Man'yōshū]]}} is published.
*784: The emperor moves the capital to [[Nagaokakyō|Nagaoka]].
*788: The Buddhist monk [[Saichō]] founds the monastery of [[Mount Hiei|Mt Hiei]], near [[Kyoto]], which becomes a vast ensemble of Buddhist temples.