The moment
The chronicles say that in the mid-6th century the king of Baekje in Korea sent the Yamato court a Buddha image and sūtras. The Soga clan took up the new faith, and under Empress Suiko, the first woman recorded as reigning in Japan, and her regent Prince Shōtoku, Buddhism won court backing and its first great temples.
People: Prince Shōtoku, Empress Suiko