kokufu
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- Subclass of
- administrative centre
- Has part
- provincial temple
- Country
- Japan
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- Provincial capitals of Japan
- applies to jurisdiction
- province of Japan
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were the capitals of the historical Provinces of Japan from the Nara period to the Heian period.
== History == As part of the Taika Reform (645), which aimed at a centralization of the administration following the Chinese model (ritsuryō), the kokufu and with it the office of the kokushi, replacing the older Kuni no miyatsuko, developed in the 660s.
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