Heian
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Miyagi Heian Period
794 – 1185
Amida hall in Kakuda, Miyagi, said to date from around 1177 and the oldest building in the prefecture: a plain thatched hall on huge pillars housing a great Amida.
Volume 10 of Sima Qian's Shiji, copied and annotated by Oe no Ieguni in 1073: Japan's oldest dated Shiji manuscript, now a National Treasure at Tohoku University.
A Heian copy of volume 25 of the Ruiju Kokushi, Sugawara no Michizane's classified history, once held by the Mibu family and now a National Treasure at Tohoku.