moriya

Updated: August 22, 2026

From the day of the destruction of the military party under the o-muraji Moriya, the foreign faith flourished. Then as has been shown were built the first two great temples, and then, for the first time, a Buddhist place of worship was endowed* with rich estates and an ample number of serfs to till them.

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