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The time when Bai Juyi's works were first introduced to Japan was recorded in the records of Emperor Wende of Japan. In the fifth year of He Cheng (838), Taizai Sauer Yueshou Fujiwara picked out Bai Yuan's poems and pencils from the items brought by Tang merchants and presented them to Ren Ming. Subsequently, the envoys in Tang Dynasty brought back more works one after another. Once his poems were introduced, they spread quickly and were deeply loved by Japanese literati at that time. According to "See Japan in Bibliography", there were Bai's Collected Works (70 volumes) and Bai's Changqing Collection (29 volumes) that spread to Japan at that time. According to the statistics of Japanese scholar Kim Jiro's "heian period Literature" and "White Anthology", in "Tales of the Millennium" edited by Ping 'an scribe Dajiang Weishi, * * received a total of1110 poems by Chinese and Japanese poets. According to Kawaguchi's statistics, in Fujiwara's poems, * * * contains 588 poems, among which Bai Juyi's poems are 139.