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  Yayoi Culture (ca. 4th century B.C.–3rd century A.D.) | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The ...
Two technical differences, however, are significant: the fine clay surfaces of Yayoi vessels were smoothed, and clay slip was sometimes applied over the body to make it less porous.
Many Yayoi vessels resemble pots found in Korea, and some scholars have proposed that the Yayoi style originated in that land, arriving first in northern Kyushu and gradually spreading northeastward.
A class society began to emerge during the Yayoi period.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm   (463 words)

  
  Yayoi and Jomon
These were the Yayoi, and their origins lay in the north of China.
The Yayoi displaced the indigenous language, social patterns, and religion of the original inhabitants.
In this view, Japanese culture is a foreign import deriving ultimately from the north of China and ancient Korea, a view that is not popular among the modern Japanese.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM   (1646 words)

  
  Yayoi Culture
At first, Yayoi was a culture of peasant farmers living in small villages and supplementing their diet with the produce of the forests, streams and sea.
Yayoi villages typically have a number of squarish pit-dwellings with thatched roofs reaching to the ground and hearths in the center of the earthen floors.
The jar and cist burials usually pictured as representative of Yayoi burials are in fact mostly limited to a small region of northern Kyushu and not representative at all.
www.t-net.ne.jp /~keally/yayoi.html   (3154 words)

  
 Yayoi remains found in Tohoku   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SENDAI (Kyodo) The Yayoi people, who are believed to have migrated to Japan from other parts of Asia via the Korean Peninsula, may have moved north through the Japanese archipelago much faster than previously believed, according to Tohuku University researchers.
The Yayoi are believed to have settled in many parts of northern Kyushu and western Japan, displacing the Jomon, while they intermingled with the Jomon in the Kanto Plain.
In Hokkaido and the Tohoku region, the Jomon were believed to have been unaffected by the Yayoi, who brought rice cultivation and the use of bronze and iron to the archipelago, it said.
www.trussel.com /prehist/news101.htm   (475 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Depending upon the source, the Yayoi period is marked by the start of the practice of growing rice in a paddy field or a new style of pottery.
The earliest Yayoi people are believed to have first emerged in northern Kyūshū, later moving on to the main island of Honshu, where they largely displaced the native Jōmon, though there was some mixing of the two distinct genetic stocks.
Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, food preservation was discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Yayoi   (1729 words)

  
 Yayoi
The life-style of the Jomon Period might have been similar to that of the Yayoi period because of the geography of Japan.
The cultural effect from Korea was reflected in the shape of earthenware vessels, tools, technology and society in Yayoi period.
However, warfare, wealth and poverty, and difference of size and village strength were seen in the Yayoi Period as a result of differences in the amount of cultivated and stored rice in each village.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/yayoi/yayoi.html   (157 words)

  
 About Yayoi Yoshida
Yayoi Yoshida was a child prodigy who has won many awards as a pianist and keyboardist, as well as a composer and arranger in her native Tokyo.
These recordings were made under the personal direction Yayoi, working as both a composer/arranger as well as pianist.
In 2000, Yayoi had had a concert with Vinx, and recordings as well.
yayoimusic.com   (351 words)

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