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[[File:Heijo-daigokuden.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The main audience hall (''daigokuden'') of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]] (reconstruction, 2010)]]

[[File:Heijo-daigokuden.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The main audience hall (''daigokuden'') of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]] (reconstruction, 2010)]]

*''Japanese:'' 平城京 ''(heijou-kyou)''

*''Japanese:'' [[平城]]京 ''(heijou-kyou)''

Heijô-kyô, the city today known as [[Nara]], was the Imperial capital of the Japanese state from [[710]] to [[784]].

Heijô-kyô, the city today known as [[Nara]], was the Imperial capital of the Japanese state from [[710]] to [[784]].

Each half of the city had a central marketplace, where both local goods and goods imported from further away were bought and sold. The city was connected to [[Naniwa]] (modern-day [[Osaka]]) via canals and river transport systems, and beyond that to the rest of the archipelago chiefly by sea routes. Goods were purchased at market chiefly by barter, though [[currency|copper coins]] minted by the state also circulated.

Each half of the city had a central marketplace, where both local goods and goods imported from further away were bought and sold. The city was connected to [[Naniwa]] (modern-day [[Osaka]]) via canals and river transport systems, and beyond that to the rest of the archipelago chiefly by sea routes. Goods were purchased at market chiefly by barter, though [[currency|copper coins]] minted by the state also circulated.

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