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Especially, the emphasis on Buddhism undercut the family members’s influence. At the end of the 8th century, the highly effective priest-Leading Dōkyō rose to your place of undisputed hegemony under Shōmu’s daughter, who reigned twice, since the empress Kōken then as Shōtoku; and Fujiwara nobles feared which the priestly domination of pres