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Yayoi Yayoi (弥生時代) is an era in Japan from 300 BC to A.D. It is named after the section of Tokyo where archaeological investigations uncovered its trace. The Yayoi made bronze ceremonial nonfunctional bells, mirrors, and weapons and, by the 1st century A.D., iron agricultural tools and weapons. Wa (the Japanese pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan) was first mentioned in A.D. Early Chinese historians described Wa as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities, not the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the Nihongi[?], which puts the foundation of Japan at 660 BC. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ya/Yayoi.html   (394 words)

Ancient Japan The appearance of large settlements from the middle period onward has been interpreted by some scholars as implying the cultivation of certain types of crop--a hypothesis seemingly supported by the fact that the chipped-stone axes of this period are not sharp but seem to have been used for digging soil. The new Yayoi culture that arose in Kyushu, while the Jomon culture was still undergoing development elsewhere, spread gradually eastward, overwhelming the Jomon culture as it went, until it reached the northern districts of Honshu (the largest island of Japan). Yayoi culture undoubtedly represents an admixture of new sanguineous elements, but it seems likely that the chief strain of proto-Japanese found throughout the country during the Jomon period was not disrupted but was carried over into later ages. www.crystalinks.com /japan1.html   (4157 words)

Japanese history: Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun During the Jomon Period (13000 BC to 300 BC), the inhabitants of the Japanese islands were gatherers, fishers and hunters. By the beginning of the Kofun Period (300 - 538), a center of power had developed in the fertile Kinai plain, and by about 400 AD the country was united as Yamato Japan with its political center in and around the province of Yamato (about today's Nara prefecture). The period's name comes from the large tombs (kofun) that were built for the political leaders of that era. www.japan-guide.com /e/e2131.html   (451 words)

Yayoi period Summary The Yayoi period is distinguished from the Kofun on the basis of these standardized tombs, but the underlying political processes straddle both periods. 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. A theory publicized in the early Meiji period argued that the Yayoi culture was brought to Japan by migrants from Korea. www.bookrags.com /Yayoi_period   (2889 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)

JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan Japanese culture of this period was influenced by the Tang Dynasty in China. The Momoyama period marks the end of a long period of civil strife (as feudal clans fought for control during the latter half of the 15th century) and the beginning of a era of unification under Oda Nobunaga. The early part of the Showa period was a period of Japanese Imperialism during which Japan went to war with China, then, after bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States and the Allied Forces. www.japancorner.com /cultural-history.asp   (1416 words)

Neolithic Japan - Yayoi period (c. 250 BC-c. AD 250) - Japanese History Online Tsushima island lies halfway between the Korean peninsula and Kyushu, and excavations since September 1999 in the mountains of the island have uncovered a Yayoi Period settlement that appears to be the capitol of the Tsushimakoku kingdom that was mentioned in the Chinese Wei Chronicle. The main evidence for this is the fact that at one stage of the Yayoi period, the communities were building their settlements on hills or high ground. Yayoi people did not have the capability of building long canals for irrigation, so the hill top settlements were either an indicator of dry-rice cultivation, or they were defensive settlements to protect the community. www.yamasa.org /history/english/yayoi_jidai.html   (1157 words)

Japan - MSN Encarta The Yayoi culture was more advanced, introducing wet-rice agriculture, weaving, simple utilitarian pots fired at high temperatures, and iron implements. The advent of Yayoi seems to have changed the culture of the early Japanese but made little difference to their racial stock, and was probably more a process of cultural diffusion than ethnic conquest. The Kofun period is named after the large kofun (Japanese, tumuli) which marked the graves of the Japanese emperors and nobility, demonstrating that the principal feature of the period was the unification of Japan under the imperial house. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566679_9/Japan.html   (884 words)

jap_ceramic This period and the succeeding later Jomon period, which lasted until 300, BC saw the introduction of large numbers of small figurines, which are both animistic as well as artistic in their execution. Yayoi ceramics may at first seem plain compared to Jomon ceramic forms but Yaoyi ceramics used finer alluvial clays to produce thinner-walled delicate shapes that can be very pleasing. Although the Momoyama period was very short, a form of pottery called Shino that developed during this period and which displays the rich decorative beauty of the late sixteenth century is highly regarded for its form and beauty. www.asia-art.net /jap_ceramic.html   (1506 words)

Yayoi Period Yayoi Period 300 BCE-300 CE Pottery made during this time was done by using a turning wheel. There were three main centers of culture during this period were at Izumo on the Janap Sea side of Honshu; one was at Ise in the Yamato area, and the third was on the southern island of Kyushu. There are also surviving paintings from the Yayoi period, but they are primitive and few in number. www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/yayoi.html   (582 words)

Japanese Art History The periods of Japanese art history like Kamakura or Muromachi are mostly named after the places, where the seat of the government was located. The Muromachi period is also called the Ashikaga period after the military clan that took control of the shogunate. During the Muromachi period, the art of intricate gardening and ikebana reached a high level of refinement in the history of Japanese arts. www.artelino.com /articles/japanese_art_history.asp   (753 words)

Sumitomo Group Public Affairs Committee The Jomon Period Japanese were still mainly hunter-gatherers, and it was only after the start of the Yayoi period that agriculture began to take off in a big way. The steady supply of food guaranteed by the cultivation of crops is thought to be one of the factors behind the sudden spurt in growth in the Yayoi period. If you look at human bones from the Yayoi Period, the owners of those found in western Japan where the newcomers settled were relatively tall, whereas the size of Yayoi Period bones found in northern Japan suggest people of much the same average height as those of the Jomon Period. www.sumitomo.gr.jp /english/discoveries/special/84_01.html   (843 words)

Association for Asia Research- The Japanese Roots (Part III)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Yayoi people averaged an inch or two taller, with close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat browridges and noses. Some skeletons of the Yayoi period were still Jomon-like in appearance, but that is to be expected by almost any theory of the Jomon-Yayoi transition. Similarly, geneticists attempting to calculate the relative contributions of Korean-like Yayoi genes and Ainu-like Jomon genes to the modem Japanese gene pool have concluded that the Yayoi contribution was generally dominant. www.asianresearch.org /articles/2350.html   (915 words)

Kofun Culture This period sees the full development of the early Japanese state, and it is a time of close contacts with the continent, especially with the Korean kingdoms. Similar round and square mounds with moats continued all through the Kofun Period, although the Kofun burial was placed in the top of the mound instead of under it, as in the Yayoi Period. The date for the end of the Kofun Period is placed variously at 552 (the official date for the introduction of Buddhism) or 710 (the date of the move to the Heijo-kyo capital). www.t-net.ne.jp /~keally/kofun.html   (5144 words)

Kofun period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Generally, the Kofun period is divided from the Asuka period for its cultural differences. Politically, the establishment of the Yamato court, and its expansion as allied states from Kyūshū to the Kantō are key factors in defining the period. Much of the material culture of the Kofun period is barely distinguishable from that of the contemporaneous southern Korean peninsula, demonstrating that at this time Japan was in close political and economic contact with continental Asia (especially with the southern dynasties of China) through Korea. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kofun_period   (2901 words)

NIHON KOKOGAKU 16 This paper aims to specify the region of origin and to investigate the diffusion process of the rice agriculture-based cultural complex introduced from the southern region of the Korean peninsula to Japan in the Initial and Early Yayoi periods by analyzing the dolmens in Southern Korea and Northern Kyushu. These three factors relate to the characteristics of Yayoi covered open firing: (i) it was fuel economical; (ii) firing quality was improved by using straw as a covering; and (iii) the temperature and firing time could be easily controlled by varying the type and quantity of straw covering. In the Nara and Heian periods, Yamabe gun in Kazusa Province was classified as a smaller county (gegun). wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp /jaa2/journal/con16abs.html   (2929 words)

Mesolithic Japan - Jomon Period (9500 BP to c. 2250 BP) - Japanese History Online During this period, the people living in the Japanese archipelago continued to be hunter-gatherers, but they led an increasingly sedentary life with decreasing foraging ranges. The Jomon period is unusual by world standards; there is ample evidence of pottery manufacture and of the beginnings of agriculture and animal husbandry. By the middle period, Jomon pottery and the culture it was associated with was distributed widely through the Archipelago. www.yamasa.org /history/english/jomon_jidai.html   (1140 words)

Yayoi and Jomon Corresponding the warmest period since the last ice age were tremendous innovations in human habitation. It was in this period that human beings all over the world began to live in a more sedentary manner—at the beginning of this period, human beings begin to live in substantially sized villages; towards the end of this period, the very first human cities appear. The Yayoi displaced the indigenous language, social patterns, and religion of the original inhabitants. www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM   (1646 words)

Yayoi period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Following the Jomon period (10,000 BC to 300 BC), Yayoi culture flourished from southern Kyūshū to northern Honshū. 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yayoi   (1858 words)

Tattoos.Com Ezine Jomon period (10,000 B. Jomon means "pattern of rope." Many ceramic pots with markings of rope were found in that period. In this period, hilly tombs in many places were made, and the clay figures in the shape of dolls, horses and huts were also found in the tombs. Bunka Bunsei period (1804-1830), the number of tattooed individuals was rapidly growing, and professional tattooists began to appear. tattoos.com /mieko.htm   (5731 words)

Kyudo: Japanese Archery The Ancient period also saw the rise of the samurai, or warrior class, and the bow saw even greater use as a weapon of war as the samurai struggled to establish themselves as a powerful new social class. It was during the Feudal period that the construction of the Japanese bow reached its peak. In the seventeenth century Japan's period of civil war ceased and the emphasis of Japanese archery gradually changed from kyujutsu to kyudo, or, in other words, from the technique of fighting with a bow to the way of personal development. www.kyudo.com /kyudo-h.html   (890 words)

Japan Omnibus - History - Early Japanese History The Nara Period (710~794) saw the first signs of a tangible culture and it was during this time that the first historical records were kept. Early in the Heian Period (794~1185), the Imperial court received cultural delegations from China and was further strengthened by the conquest of the north of the main island, Honshu. After a period of corruption under the Fujiwara and later the Taira clan, who effectively ruled the country as regents, Japan entered a medieval period of feudalism and saw the advent of a samurai (warrior) class. www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/history1.shtml   (999 words)

Japan, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This is a period of increased affluence and a class society begins to emerge. In comparison with pottery of the Jomon period, which influenced Yayoi ceramics in some regions, Yayoi wares tend to be made of finer clay, fired at higher temperatures and more carefully smoothed, and the potters tend to prefer complex forms over intricate surface designs. By the later centuries of the Yayoi period, Japanese craftsmen are able to produce metal containers, weapons, tools, mirrors, and bronze bells for utilitarian or religious functions. www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/04/eaj/ht04eaj.htm   (400 words)

Yayoi linked to Yangtze area - Asia Finest Discussion Forum This was suggested by DNA tests conducted by the researchers that showed genetic similarities between human remains from the Yayoi Period found in southwestern Japan and the early Han Dynasty found in China's central Jiangsu Province, Satoshi Yamaguchi told reporters. People who introduced irrigation techniques to the Japanese archipelago in the Yayoi Period (250 B.C.-300) were believed to have come to Japan either from the Korean Peninsula across the Tsushima Strait, or from northern China across the Yellow Sea. Recent evidence indicates that Yayoi people crossed from the mainland and were distinct from their Ainu-like predecessors in the Jomon Period — a finding that contradicts the common idea that Japanese have an unbroken lineage stretching back to the ice age. www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=35217   (1499 words)

Information on Japan During this period, the ancestors of the present Emperor began to bring a number of small states under unified rule from their bases around what are now Nara and Osaka Prefectures. The Nara period began at the beginning of the eighth century with the establishment of the country's first permanent capital in Nara. From the Kamakura period, which began at the end of the twelfth century, to the close of the Edo period in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Japan was ruled by samurai, or warrior class. www.freejapan.org /Information.htm   (937 words)

The Jomon Period in Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) These periods are comparable to the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age seen in the rest of the Old World, but the Japanese have given each period its own name to reflect its unique Japanese character. Archaeology is still done on remains post-dating the Kofun Period, but it falls into the realm of "historic" archaeology. The Yayoi period also sees the use of both bronze and iron. www.nbz.or.jp /eng/prehistoric.htm   (513 words)

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