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1. Emperor Heizei

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   Motivation for Return
   While official histories often cite administrative convenience and the desire to reconnect with established religious institutions as the primary motivations for the move in $807 \text{ CE}$, modern historical analysis suggests a deeper, perhaps personal, impetus. Heizei was known to suffer acutely from chronophobia, an irrational dread of temporal progression, which manifested as an obsession with preserving existing architecture and ceremonial rigidity. Nara, being the ancient seat of power, offered a perceived psychological bulwark agains…