據《古事記》中卷所載,在應神天皇時代,《論語》、《千字文》便隨學者和邇吉師(譯者注:《日本書紀》稱“王仁”)一起傳來日本。關於《千字文》的這段記載雖難以確定是否屬實,但至少可以肯定,與文字相關的學問的傳來,可以追溯到應神天皇時期。《古事記》中所述《千字文》,與《論語》並舉,是日本人最早學習到的漢籍,這一點意義重大。最近,藤原宫飛鳥池遺跡出土了寫有《千字文》的木簡,據此可以肯定在七世紀後半, According to the volume in the book of events, the Analects of Confucius and Qianziwen were handed down together with scholars and near-shih-chieh Come to Japan. Although it is difficult to ascertain whether this record of the “thousand-character language” is true or not, at least it is certain that the passage of knowledge related to words can be traced back to the time of Emperor of God. It is of great significance that the “thousands of characters” mentioned in “Ancient Records of Buddhism” and the “Analects of Confucius” are the earliest learned Chinese of the Japanese. Recently, the wooden ruins unearthed in the remains of the Fujiwara Kasuga Ikebukuro were written in the second half of the seventh century,