Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Japanese peoples never made a trip west across the Sea of Japan.
mnli hypothesis: Japanese peoples never made a trip west across the Sea of Japan. premise: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting later to be brought back for further development in Japan.