japanese history

This would provide the obasoku with sort of a commercial endorsement. The style of ubasoku that they would encounter in the mountains would have been the yama-bushi, or holy men who sleep in the mountains. Many of the people that bought into the ideas of Buddhism did so out of the need to be more like the superior Koreans and Chinese. Many of the ubasoku were intelligent enough to make a career out of simply being a holly person. Many were hired by upper class people to ward off evil spirits by way of exorcism. Still others decided to accept the ideas due to the fact that Shinto was the perfect religion to absorb the ideals of another religion. This worked out rather nicely due to the fact that the ubasoku were rather intelligent people, who were able to convince the simpler rural peoples of Japan. Due to the advances made by people of their homelands these people were able to sell themselves as mystics of Buddhism. The ubasoku had to be smart enough to escape imminent death in their homeland and to navigate the difficult waters between Korea and Japan. The powerful person and their entourage would usually draw the attention of the rural people.

In conclusion the ubasoku who had brought irrigation, bridge building, wheelbarrows, architecture and various new ways to produce food such as the three field system, and as a by product of that technology many people in Japan had to observe demonstrations of Buddhism. Many of them married local women and started new in Japan. They managed to make a decent living preaching the ways of Buddhism. Most of the ubasoku had strange mystical powers. The advances that they possessed did not hurt them either.