[History Lives - Baekje Edition] Episode 14: Nails and Tiles That Crossed the Sea - The Baekje Craftsmen Who Built Asuka

Key points in 3 lines

1. In 588, the Nihon Shoki records that King Wideok of Baekje dispatched an entire group of technicians, including master engineers, tile masters and painters, to build Asukadera in Japan.
2. Baekje craftsmen worked in Asuka at the request of Soga no Umako, and Yu Jung-gwang, a Baekje craftsman, is said to have completed Shitennoji in 593.
3. The mainstream view is that this transfer of technology became the foundation of Japanese temple architecture, but some Japanese scholars argue that Yu Jung-gwang's story may have been embellished.

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