Then in 794 Kammu suddenly shifted the capital again, this time to Heian-kyō, which is modern day Kyoto.

The emperor helped Kūkai to establish the Shingon School of Buddhism by granting him the Toji temple in the capital Heian-kyō ( present day Kyoto ).

*, one of numbered east-west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō, present-day Kyoto

*, one of numbered east-west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō, present-day Kyoto

* 794: Emperor Kammu moves the capital to Heian-kyō ( present day Kyoto ), initiating the Heian period of Japan.

*, one of numbered east-west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō ( present-day Kyoto, Japan )

*, one of east-west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō, present-day Kyoto

* Shijō Street, one of east-west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō, present-day Kyoto

Except for 5 years ( 740 – 745 ), when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor Kammu established a new capital, Nagaoka-kyō, in 784 before moving to Heian-kyō, or Kyoto, a decade later in 794.

The Heian period saw the capital moved to Heian-kyō (, present-day Kyoto ), where it would remain for over a thousand years until the Meiji Restoration.

The city of Kyoto was developed as a planned city in 794 as a new imperial capital ( then called Heian-kyō ), built on a grid layout modeled after the Tang dynasty capital of Chang ' an ( modern day Xi ' an ), and remained the capital for over a millennium.

Fearing for Kyoto's loss in glory and interest by her people, the city government and the Kyoto Prefectural Government commemorated the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Heian-kyō ( 平安京 ) which was the former name of Kyoto, in 794 by ( 737-806 ).

* Heian-kyō, the Heian Period capital of Japan that has become the present-day city of Kyoto

War broke out in the city of Heian-kyō ( Kyoto ).

Historically speaking, while there was an imperial edict transferring the capital to Heian-kyō, such a basis has never been provided for the transfer from Kyoto to Tokyo.

* Heian-kyō / Kyoto ( Heian Palace ), 1180 – 1868

was the gate built at the southern end of the monumental Suzaku Avenue in the ancient Japanese cities of Heijō-kyō ( Nara ) and Heian-kyō ( Kyoto ), in accordance with the Chinese grid-patterned city layout.

The was the main gate built in the center of the south end of the imperial palaces in the Japanese ancient capitals of Fujiwara-kyō ( Kashihara ), Heijō-kyō ( Nara ), and later Heian-kyō ( Kyoto ).

The great fire ( 1177 ) burns the Imperial Palace in the capital, Heian-kyō, Kyoto.

In 1895, a partial reproduction of the Heian Palace from Heian-kyō ( former Kyoto ) was planned for construction for the1100th anniversary of the establishment of Heian-kyō.

In 794, at the beginning of the Heian Period, the Japanese court moved its capital to Heian-kyō ( present-day Kyoto ).

File: Miniature Model of HigashiSanjoDono. jpg | Model of a residence and garden at Heian-kyō ( Kyoto ), around 1000 A. D.

From the establishment of the Tokugawa bakufus headquarters at Edo, although Kyoto remained the formal capital of the country the de facto capital was now Edo ; it was the center of political power.

* Keiō 4: On the 27th day of the 8th month ( October 12, 1868 ), Emperor Meiji was crowned in the Shishin-den in Kyoto.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

On this occasion, the Southern Court abducted Retired ( Northern ) Emperors Emperor Kōgon and Emperor Kōmyō as well as Emperor Sukō and the Crown Prince, Imperial Prince Naohito, the son of Emperor Kōgon, from Kyoto to Yoshino, producing a state of affairs in which there was no Emperor in Kyoto.

During this period, the Era of the Northern and Southern Courts, because of the antagonism between the two competing dynasties, public order in Kyoto was disturbed.

Emperor Go-Kōgon was forced to repeatedly flee from Kyoto to Ōmi Province and other places.

Around the time that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was named Shōgun ( 1368 ), the Southern Courts power weakened, and order was restored to Kyoto.

The earliest documented earthquake in Japan occurred in 416 when the Imperial Palace at Kyoto was leveled by the severity of the Earth's tremors.

In the ninth and tenth centuries, much authority was lost to the great families, who disregarded the Chinese-style land and tax systems imposed by the government in Kyoto.

The Kyoto Protocol was the result of an international convention held in Kyoto, Japan, during which several industrialized nations agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

de Garis ' original work on " CAM-brain " machines was part of an 8 year research project, from 1993 to 2000, at the ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories ( ATR-HIP ) in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

In 2001 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize.

He spent his childhood in Kanazawa, capital of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, and was educated in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University in 1879.

He was a gifted blind musician from Kyoto who changed the limited selection of six songs to a brand new style of koto music which he called kumi uta.

Kitagawa Ichitarō ( later Utamaro ) was born either in Edo ( present-day Tokyo ), Kyoto, or Osaka, or in a provincial town, in 1753.

The Yoshioka School ( descended from either the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū or the Kyo-hachi-ryū ) was the foremost of the eight major schools of martial arts in Kyoto, the " Kyo-ryū " / " Schools of Kyoto ".

Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.

It was around this time that Uesugi forces began preparations to march on Kyoto.

The main UNFCCC treaty is the Kyoto Protocol, which has become much better known than the UNFCCC itself.

In 1919, his first job in the film industry was as an assistant cinematographer at the Nippon Katsudou Shashin Kabushiki-kaisha ( Nippon Cinematograph Company or Kokkatsu for short ) in Kyoto, which later became better known as Nikkatsu.

* kamo is one of, of a large round shape ; it is one of he better known " Kyoto vegetables " or.

However, with the rise of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism a less technical style appeared, representative of Zen attitudes and exemplified in the works of Musō Soseki who wrote in a refined sosho style, or Shūhō Myōcho ( 1282 – 1337 ; better known as Daito Kokushi ), the founder of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, who had not traveled to China to study.

He emphasised the importance of the Kyoto Protocol, the Natura 2000 project, the REACH directive, and the need to better enforce existing EU environmental legislation.

During his hearing with the European Parliament, Stavros Dimas announced four main priorities for his term in office: climate change, biodiversity, public health and sustainability ; Highlighting the importance of the Kyoto Protocol, the Natura 2000 project, the REACH directive, and the need to better enforce existing EU environmental legislation.