related to Shōsōin. Guide to Shosoin research (Nara period written documents of the scriptorium) Imperial Household Agency page for Shōsōin (in English)
Emperor Shōmu (聖武天皇, Shōmu-tennō, September 22, 701 – June 4, 756) was the 45th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Shōmu's
Korea, India, and the Islamic empire. Shosoin stores more than 10,000 paper documents, the so-called Shōsōin documents (正倉院文書). These are records written
benkan for the first time in 732. However, a document dated 793 in the Shōsōin, where Emperor Shōmu's benkan was kept, says on-kanmuri (御冠), not benkan
the Chinese name 昆布 (kūnbù). The kanji itself already could be seen in Shōsōin Monjo (8th century) and Shoku Nihongi (797) in Japan, and furthermore trace