Category
page 18th century in Japan
Nara period
historical medieval period of Japan from CE 710 to 794
Asuka period
historical period of Japan
Yōrō Code
700's Japanese legal code of the Nara period
mokkan
thumb|Replicas of mokkan
are wooden tablets found at Japanese archaeological sites.
Most of the tablets date from the mid-7th to mid-8th century, but some are as late as the early modern period.
They have been found in sites across Japan, but mostly around the old capitals of Nara and Fujiwara.
They were used for informal purposes, such as shipping tags, memoranda, and simple messages, and thus complement official records transmitted on paper.