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Wani

Korean scribe
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  • Tokugawa Nariaki: calligraphy
    Japanese calligraphy

    …that a Korean scribe named Wani brought some Chinese books of Confucian classics, such as the Analects, Great Learning, and Book of Mencius, to Japan near the end of the 4th century ce. From the 7th century onward, many Japanese scholars, particularly Buddhist monks, went to China, and some Chinese…

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    …that a Korean scribe named Wani brought some Chinese books of Confucian classics, such as the Analects, Great Learning, and Book of Mencius, to Japan near the end of the 4th century ce. From the 7th century onward, many Japanese scholars, particularly Buddhist monks, went to China, and some Chinese…

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