Emperor Shōmu

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Emperor Shōmu was an 8th-century Japanese ruler renowned for promoting Buddhism as a state religion and commissioning the Great Buddha and Tōdai-ji temple in Nara.

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Nara period notableEmperor Emperor Shōmu