The study of the system of roof-tile production and supply in Nara period from construction projects by Empress Komyo

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K00951
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 03050:Archaeology-related
• Research Institution: University of Toyama
• Principal Investigator: TSUGIYAMA Jun 富山大学, 学術研究部人文科学系, 教授 (80260058)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 光明皇后 / 造営事業 / 造瓦 / 藤原氏

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the eighth century, Nara period, in and around the Nara Capital, many construction projects, palace, government offices, and temples, had carried out. The problem is to reveal the ways of organization and management of each project and to recognize hole structure of construction projects with archaeological evidence, roof-tiles. This study pay attention to the construction projects by Empress Komyo(701-760). They were divided three groups according to their locations and kinds of roof-tiles used at each site. These groups had relations with each other. Roof-tile productions of these groups was different from those of the Nara Palace. But on the other hand, they had some similarities with those of the Nara Palace. Empress Komyo was both a member of the Imperial Family and of the noble family, Fujiwara clan. In the roof-tile productions, she used her father, Fuhito’s inheritance.

Free Research Field

考古学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

奈良時代、平城京周辺では、宮殿、官衙、寺院などの造営事業が行われたが、その組織・運営のありかたについて、個別事例の実態を明らかにし、全体を構造的に把握することが課題である。本研究では、光明皇后の造営事業を対象とし、造営に関わる諸要素のうち考古資料である瓦からその実際を検討した。この成果は、平城京および京周辺の造営事業における事例研究をなすとともに、宮と京、宮と寺院、官と私という構造的な視点に具体的な材料を提供するものである。