538 AD or 552 AD
Introduction to Japan via Korea
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Japanese Buddhist traditions
Sources differ on 538 or 552; transmission comes via Korea and China and adapts to Japan.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · uncertain
- End
- year · uncertain
- Dating in the source document
- 538 o 552
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: dating window; it does not mean the event lasted for that entire interval.
Sources
- Met — Japan 500–1000 (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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