<P> Along with Buddhism, the art of Buddhist sculpture also spread to Japan from Korea . At first almost all Japanese Buddhist sculptures were imported from Korea, and these imports demonstrate an artistic style which would dominate Japanese sculpture during the Asuka period (538--710). In the years 577 and 588 the Korean state of Baekje dispatched to Japan expert statue sculptors . </P> <P> One of the most notable examples of Korean influence on Japanese sculpture is the Buddha statue in the Koryu - ji Temple, sometimes referred to as the "Crown - Coiffed Maitreya". This statue was directly copied from a Korean prototype around the seventh century . Likewise, the Great Buddha sculpture of Todai - ji Temple, as well as both the Baekje Kannon and the Guze Kannon sculptures of Japan's Horyu - ji Temple, are believed to have been sculpted by Koreans . The Guze Kannon was described as "the greatest perfect monument of Corean art" by Ernest Fenollosa . </P> <P> Concerning literature, Roy Andrew Miller has stated that, "Japanese scholars have made important progress in identifying the seminal contributions of Korean immigrants, and of Korean literary culture as brought to Japan by the early Korean diaspora from the Old Korean kingdoms, to the formative stages of early Japanese poetic art". Susumu Nakanishi has argued that Okura was born in the Korean kingdom of Baekje to a high court doctor and came with his émigré family to Yamato at the age of 3 after the collapse of that kingdom . It has been noted that the Korean genre of hyangga (郷 歌), of which only 25 examples survive from the Silla kingdom's Samdaemok (三代目), compiled in 888 CE, differ greatly in both form and theme from the Man'yōshū poems, with the single exception of some of Yamanoue no Okura's poetry which shares their Buddhist - philosophical thematics . Roy Andrew Miller, arguing that Okura's "Korean ethnicity" is an established fact though one disliked by the Japanese literary establishment, speaks of his "unique binational background and multilingual heritage". </P> <P> William Wayne Farris has noted that "Architecture was one art that changed forever with the importation of Buddhism" from Korea . In 587 the Buddhist Soga clan took control of the Japanese government, and the very next year in 588 the kingdom of Baekje sent Japan two architects, one carpenter, four roof tilers, and one painter who were assigned the task of constructing Japan's first full - fledged Buddhist temple . This temple was Asuka Temple, completed in 596, and it was only the first of many such temples put together on the Baekje model . According to the historian Jonathan W. Best "virtually all of the numerous complete temples built in Japan between the last decade of the sixth and the middle of the seventh centuries" were designed off Korean models . Among such early Japanese temples designed and built with Korean aid are Shitennō - ji Temple and Hōryū - ji Temple . </P>

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