dosho

Updated: July 10, 2026

It was also to a Buddhist priest, Dosho, that Japan owed the inception of cremation. Dying in the year 700, Dosho ordered his disciples to cremate his body at Kurihara, and, two years later, the Dowager Empress Jito willed that her corpse should be similarly disposed of.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era