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There was Japanese named "Abe-no-Nakamaro" who was born in the early 8th century.(阿倍仲麻呂)

Around this time，after 40 years from the battle of Hakusukinoe.
Dispatch of international students to Tang from Japan is resumed.

This called ”Kentōshi".　(遣唐使)
Kentōshi is "envoy to Tang".

At that time，Japan had promoted already the development of the statute system.
Therefore，their study was connected directly to the modernization of Japan.

Initially, they seems to have been a group of about 200-300 people per a study abroad.
But it became a group of more than 500 people in the end.
(Including envoy and sailors of course.)

By the way，there were many accidents in those Voyages.
Shipbuilding technology and sailing technology of Japan.
Both were immature yet.

Of course，those accidents were connected directly to their death .
But they crossed the sea.


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International students to Tang.
Decades in a long case，they were studying in Tang.
And after returning to Japan，they became an important human resource of Japan modernization.
(Envoy was return to Japan immediately after finish his mission.)　
　
However，international student with a different fate was also present.
It was Nakamaro.

He studied in Tang when teen.
And he became officials of the Tang dynasty.

His chinese name "Cháohéng". (晁衡)
He became a senior official of the Tang dynasty in the end.

When his life in Tang has passed 50 years，kentōsh came to Tang.
Came Tang of Kentōshi was irregular.　
(AD 702,717,733,746,752.759・・・.)
　　
"Nostalgia."
He hoped to return to Japan with it.　
　
Emperor of the Tang dynasty allowed it.
He set out on a journey of return to Japan.　　
　
But his ship was wrecked during the voyage to Japan.
His ship was shipwrecked on the south of Tang.

He survived.
But at that time, there was no regular line of ship between Tang and Japan.
Voyage was special.
　
Also immediately after this, a full-scale insurrection occurs in the Tang.
It called "Anshi-no-Ran" in Japan.（安史之亂）

He was not able to return to Japan at last.　　

"Moon，I have seen now.
Moon，coming out to my hometown now.
Is it will be the same Moon?"

Japanese poem of such content by him.
It remains.


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Incidentally，"Li Bai" who is one of the poet to represent China. (李白)
There was a friendship in them.
Chinese poetry of Li Bai which gave to Nakamaro also remains.