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centuries in Japan, of which three are located a small, three-kilometer, area of southwestern Gunma
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in the 1790s. In 1884, the governor of Gunma
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around the seventh century AD; however, the practice of erecting stelae never became as widespread as in China and Korea, partly due to the fact that in this period of
Japanese history, writing was the preserve of the elite. There are only eighteen stelae known to exist from the seventh to eleventh
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