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Tōdai-ji Yokoe Shōen

Heian–Sengoku shōen manor ruins, Hokuriku Japan

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The Yokoe Shōen site (横江荘遺跡, Yokoe-no-shō iseki) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of a Heian period to Sengoku period shōen located in what is now part of the town of Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region Japan. The site been protected as a National Historic Site since 1972.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
Contemporary Period
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Establishment of the manor

818 AD

Archaeological discovery

1970

National Historic Site protection

1972

Kamiaraiya excavations

1984-1991

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Domestic and Habitation Structures

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Japan

Coordinates

36.55° N, 136.58° E