Toyura, Oharida, Okamoto, Itabuki, Kawahara, Kiyomihara. Over a hundred years the palace moved again and again, and then it stopped moving.
Three kinds of rain-making were tried in turn, and when at last the empress prayed upstream on the Asuka River, it rained for five days. There is a reason the Nihon Shoki was so careful to set out that sequence.
Asuka-dera, Toyura-dera, Yamada-dera, Kawahara-dera, Daikandai-ji, Moto-Yakushi-ji. Who built them, and for what? Once you grasp that, temple ruins start to look different.
Several theories have been put forward about who is buried in the largest keyhole-shaped tomb in Asuka Village.