Writing is said to have been introduced to Japan in A.D. 285 by two scholars from Korea who brought with them as a gift to the Japanese emperor ten rolls of the Confucian Analects and one of the Thousand Character Classic, forming the beginning, as it were, of the study of sinology in Japan.
根據記載，日本原無文字，其文字的傳入，可追溯到西元二八五年，當時朝鮮半島上的百濟國王派學者王仁、辰孫王，帶著由中國傳入的「論語」十卷及「千字文」一卷，送給日本應神天皇，此即為日本文史漢學之祖。