Oldest printed book in Japan:

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The oldest Japanese book is The Buddhist Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 AD. The book has 6 pages of sheet text and woodcut illustrations. The Diamond Sutra, the oldest Japanese book, is comparatively short, only 6,000 words, and is part of a larger canon of sacred texts, or "sutras, in Mahayana Buddhism. It is the branch of Buddhism most common in Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Many practitioners think that the Mahayana Sutras, written in The Diamond Sutra, were dictated directly by Buddha and that the oldest book, The Diamond Sutra, takes the form of a conversation between Buddha's pupil Subhati and his master.

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