"Twelve years after Kyoto was founded, a young priest named Kukai returned from a brief sojourn in China to establish the Shingon Sect of Buddhism. Over the centuries, this new sect was to become one of the largest and most popular in Japan, and its founder's reputation was to grow apace. Recognized in his own day as a master calligrapher and an accomplished sculptor, Kukai is revered today as the inventor of the kana syllabary, the basis of written Japanese. Legend also credits Kukai, in this ninth-century wood carving, with the introduction of tea to Japan."
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