ABOUT IMPERIAL 710

Especially, the emphasis on Buddhism undercut the loved ones’s affect. At the end of the 8th century, the effective priest-Leading Dōkyō rose to some posture of undisputed hegemony beneath Shōmu’s daughter, who reigned 2 times, as the empress Kōken after which as Shōtoku; and Fujiwara nobles feared the priestly domination of government thr