Nara
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In 749 Emperor Shomu granted silk and rice land to twelve temples. His autograph edict, blanketed in imperial seals, survives mysteriously at Heidenji, Shizuoka.
Kanbokujo, a National Treasure at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, holds 311 calligraphy fragments from the 8th to 15th centuries, and a leaf by Fujiwara no Yukinari.
Held by the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, this Important Cultural Property is a fragment of an annual tax register prepared in 732 CE for Otagi District in Yamashiro Province, the area of present-day northern Kyoto. Preserving fifty-nine lines of original Nara-period writing, it is the most substantial keichō document surviving outside the Shōsōin treasury — a precious primary source for understanding ancient Japanese administration and society.