However, Chinese culture was brought to Japan without going through the Korean peninsula, for example, by means of sending an envoy to the Sui Dynasty China by Prince Shotoku, and calligraphy in Japan was affected by Sui and Tang.
しかしながら、聖徳太子が遣隋使を派遣するなど、中国文化が朝鮮半島を経由せずに直接日本に将来されるようになり、隋唐の書の影響が現れるようになる。