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Stone pavement around large well at supposed site of Asuka Itabuki-no-miya
Clay utensil found at the supposed site of Asuka Itabuki-no-miya.
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ASUKA ITABUKI-NO-MIYA
(643-645; also occupied in 655)
It was here that Soga-no-Iruka was assassinated in 645 (the 4th year of Empress Kogyoku's reign). The roof of the palace was presumably shingled with wooden boards (itabuki) in contra-distinction to former palaces, whose roofs are believed to have been for the most part thatched. The buildings were lost to fire in 655 (first year of Kogyoku's second reign, in which she is known to history as Saimei). The remains of stone pavements, buildings, and a large well have been excavated in the Oka district of Asuka-mura, in a place which tradition had long held to be an abandoned palace site. Although this site is provisionally designated as that of the Asuka Itabuki-no-miya, some scholars hold the view that it might be rather the site of the Shima-no-miya or the Asuka Kiyomihara-no-miya.
Alignment of wooden supporting posts in what was a roofed passageway at supposed site of Asuka Itabuki-no-miya.
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