Although Kunikyo was a capital for only about three years, the Imperial Decree for the Construction of Kokubun-ji Temple and Kokubun-niji Temple and the Imperial Decree for the Construction of the Great Buddha, both significant events in Japanese cultural history, were issued and carried out at this place.
わずか3年余りの都であったが、日本の文化史上の重要事項である「国分寺・国文尼寺建立の詔」と、「大仏建立の詔」はこの都で出され、実行に移された。