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Although the accession of the first Mikado is dated 660 B.C., ‘it was not till the second half of the sixth century A.D. that Japan reached the first step of civilization, along with the introduction of Buddhism, from Korea, in A.D. 552.’ The revelations of Buddhism ‘stirred the Japanese people to a loftier conception than those which the older Shinto religion had inspired,’ and ‘its earliest architectural structures date from the commencement of the seventh century.’¹