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{{History of Japan |periods |image=YayoiJar.JPG |Yayoi jar, 1st-3rd century, excavated in Kugahara, [[Ōta, Tokyo]]}}
The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated 1,000 BC – 300 AD, started at the beginning of the [[Neolithic]] in Japan, continued through the [[Bronze Age]], and towards its end crossing into the [[Iron Age]].<ref name="Silberman2012"/><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012"/><ref name="Shinya"/>
Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the [[Jōmon period]] should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.<ref>{{cite book |surname=Habu |given=Junko |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-77670-7 |page=258}}</ref> The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 6th centuries BC.<ref name="Shinya">{{cite journal |url=http://www.seaa-web.org/bul-essay-01.htm |title=A Comment on the Yayoi Period Dating Controversy |journal=Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology |surname=Shōda |given=Shinya |year=2007 |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State |given=Koji |surname=Mizoguchi |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-521-88490-7 |pages=35–36 }}</ref>
The period is named after the [[Yayoi, Tokyo|neighborhood]] of [[Tokyo]] where [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new [[Yayoi pottery]] styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in [[paddy field]]s. A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and has its origin in China. Techniques in [[metallurgy]] based on the use of [[bronze]] and [[iron]] were also introduced from China over Korea to Japan in this period.
The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period (14,000–1,000 BC) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern [[Kyūshū]] to northern [[Honshū]]. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of farmers from the Asian continent to Japan absorbed or overwhelmed the native [[hunter-gatherer]] population. Modern Japanese are largely descendants of the [[Yayoi people]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|language=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
== Features ==
[[File:YoshinogariIseki.jpg|thumb|[[Yoshinogari site]] reconstruction]]
The Yayoi period is traditionally dated from 300 BC to 300 AD.<ref name="keally-yayoi">{{cite web |url=http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/yayoi.html |title=Yayoi Culture |first=Charles T. |last=Keally |date=2006-06-03 |work=Japanese Archaeology |publisher=Charles T. Keally |accessdate=2010-03-19}}</ref> However, radio-carbon evidence suggests a date up to 500 years earlier, between 1,000 and 800 BC.<ref name="Silberman2012">Silberman et al., 154–155.</ref><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012">Schirokauer et al., 133–143.</ref><ref name="Shinya"/> During this period Japan transitioned to a settled agricultural society.<ref>{{cite book | given = Stuart D. B. | surname = Picken | pages = 13 | title = Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business| publisher = Scarecrow Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | given = Keiji | surname = Imamura | pages = 13 | title = Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia | publisher = University of Hawaii Press}}</ref>
The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi is found on northern [[Kyūshū]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/e_kenkyuu/report2004.html|title=Annual Report on Research Activity 2004|author=|date=|website=www.rekihaku.ac.jp}}</ref> but that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/article/viewFile/255/245|title=Eastern Japanese Pottery During the Jomon-Yayoi Transition: A Study in Forager-Farmer Interaction |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923052256/http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/article/viewFile/255/245 |archivedate=2009-09-23 |deadurl=yes |author=Seiji Kobayashi |publisher=[[Kokugakuin Tochigi Junior College]]}}</ref> A recent study that used [[accelerator mass spectrometry]] to analyze carbonized remains on pottery and wooden stakes, suggests that they dated back to 900–800 BC, 500 years earlier than previously believed.<ref name="Shinya"/>
The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in [[Tokyo]] where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.<ref>{{cite book | given = Keiji | surname = Imamura | pages = 13 | title = Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia | publisher = University of Hawaii Press}}</ref> Yayoi [[pottery]] was simply decorated and produced using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm</ref> Yayoi craft specialists made [[bronze]] ceremonial bells (''[[dōtaku]]''), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi farmers began using [[iron]] agricultural tools and weapons.
As the Yayoi population increased, the society became more stratified and complex. They wove [[textiles]], lived in permanent farming villages, and constructed buildings with wood and stone. They also accumulated wealth through land ownership and the storage of grain. Such factors promoted the development of distinct social classes. Contemporary Chinese sources described the people as having [[tattoos]] and other bodily markings which indicated differences in social status.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Lock |first=Margaret |title=Japanese |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of World Cultures CD-ROM |url=http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/japan.htm |access-date=July 10, 2015 |year=1998 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |location= |id= }}</ref> Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.<ref>[[Richard J. Pearson|Pearson, Richard J.]] Chiefly Exchange Between Kyushu and Okinawa, Japan, in the Yayoi Period. ''Antiquity'' 64(245)912–922, 1990.</ref> That was possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice culture from the [[Yangtze River|Yangtze]] estuary in southern [[China]] via the [[Ryukyu Islands]] or [[Korean Peninsula]].<ref name="keally-yayoi"/><ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/05/earlier-start-japanese-rice-cultivation Earlier Start for Japanese Rice Cultivation], Dennis Normile, Science, 2003 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160707223555/http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/05/earlier-start-japanese-rice-cultivation archive])</ref> Wet-rice agriculture led to the development and growth of a sedentary, agrarian society in Japan. Local political and social developments in Japan were more important than the activities of the central authority within a stratified society.{{citation needed|date=March 2008}}
Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.<ref>[http://www2.edu.ipa.go.jp/gz/k-kda1/k-kca1/k-ksa1/IPA-joe100.htm 縄文人の顔と骨格-骨格の比較] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223125145/http://www2.edu.ipa.go.jp/gz/k-kda1/k-kca1/k-ksa1/IPA-joe100.htm |date=2007-12-23 }}, Information-technology Promotion Agency</ref> The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more wide-set eyes, shorter and wider faces, and much more pronounced facial topography. They also have strikingly raised brow ridges, noses, and nose bridges. Yayoi people, on the other hand, averaged an inch or two taller, with close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. By the [[Kofun period]], almost all skeletons excavated in Japan except those of the [[Ainu people|Ainu]] are of the Yayoi type with Jomon admixture,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ir.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/bitstream/123456789/146/2/04_doi.pdf|title=: University of the Ryukyus Repository|author=|date=|website=ir.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp}}</ref> resembling those of modern-day Japanese.<ref name="JapaneseRoots">{{cite journal |author= Jared Diamond|date=June 1, 1998 |title=Japanese Roots |journal=Discover Magazine |volume=19|issue=6 June 1998 |url=http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455/ |accessdate=<!--08:36 (UTC)--> 14 December 2013|author-link=Jared Diamond }}</ref>
== History ==
===Origin of the Yayoi people===
{{Main|Yayoi people}}
{{see also|Genetic history of East Asians}}
[[File:Yayoi people Restoration model.jpg|thumb|right|[[Forensic facial reconstruction|Reconstruction]] of [[Yayoi people]] from the [[National Museum of Nature and Science]] in [[Tokyo]].]]
[[File:Korea Strait.png|thumb|left|Northern Kyushu is the part of Japan closest to the Asian mainland.]]
The origin of Yayoi culture and the [[Yayoi people]] has long been debated. The earliest archaeological sites are Itazuke or Nabata in the northern part of Kyūshū. Contacts between fishing communities on this coast and the southern coast of Korea date from the Jōmon period, as witnessed by the exchange of trade items such as fishhooks and obsidians.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 54.</ref> During the Yayoi period, cultural features from China and Korea arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.<ref>{{cite book | chapter = The earliest societies in Japan | given = J. Edward, Jr. | surname = Kidder | pages = 48–107 | title = Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1: Ancient Japan | editor-given = Delmer | editor-surname = Brown | editor-link = Delmer Brown | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-521-22352-2}} p. 81.</ref> This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 53.</ref>
Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, [[Bronze mirror|dōkyō]], [[dōtaku]], as well as irrigated paddy rice cultivation. Three major symbols of Yayoi culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.
Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's [[National Museum of Nature and Science]], compared Yayoi remains found in Japan's [[Yamaguchi Prefecture|Yamaguchi]] and [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]] prefectures with those from China's coastal [[Jiangsu]] province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kahaku.go.jp/special/past/japanese/ipix/5/5-14.html|title=Long Journey to Prehistorical Japan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421054014/http://www.kahaku.go.jp/special/past/japanese/ipix/5/5-14.html|archive-date=21 April 2015|publisher=National Science Museum of Japan|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news111.htm |title=Yayoi linked to Yangtze area: DNA tests reveal similarities to early wet-rice farmers|newspaper=The Japan Times|date=March 19, 1999}}</ref>
[[File:DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg|thumb|left|A Yayoi period [[dōtaku]] bell, 3rd century AD]]
Some scholars have concluded that Korean influence existed. [[Mark J. Hudson]] has cited archaeological evidence that included "bounded paddy fields, new types of polished stone tools, wooden farming implements, iron tools, weaving technology, ceramic storage jars, exterior bonding of clay coils in pottery fabrication, ditched settlements, domesticated pigs, and jawbone rituals."<ref>{{cite book | author=Mark J. Hudson | title=Ruins of Identity Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands | publisher =University Hawai'i Press | year=1999 | isbn=0-8248-2156-4}}</ref> The migrant transfusion from the Korean peninsula gains strength because Yayoi culture began on the north coast of Kyūshū, where Japan is closest to Korea. Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, and food preservation were discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea.<ref name="Diamond">{{cite journal |author= Jared Diamond|date=June 1, 1998 |title=Japanese Roots |journal=Discover Magazine |volume=19|issue=6, June 1998 |url=http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455/ |accessdate=2008-05-12 | quote = Unlike Jomon pottery, Yayoi pottery was very similar to contemporary South Korean pottery in shape. Many other elements of the new Yayoi culture were unmistakably Korean and previously foreign to Japan, including bronze objects, weaving, glass beads, and styles of tools and houses.|author-link=Jared Diamond }}</ref>
[[File:Bronze Mirror in Ancient Japan.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bronze mirror]] excavated in Tsubai-otsukayama kofun, [[Yamashiro, Kyoto]]]]
However, some scholars argue that the rapid increase of roughly four million people in Japan between the Jōmon and Yayoi periods cannot be explained by migration alone. They attribute the increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice. It is quite likely that rice cultivation and its subsequent deification allowed for a slow and gradual population increase.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 119.</ref> Regardless, there is archaeological evidence that supports the idea that there was an influx of farmers from the continent to Japan that absorbed or overwhelmed the native hunter-gatherer population.<ref name="Diamond"/>
Some pieces of Yayoi pottery clearly show the influence of Jōmon ceramics. In addition, the Yayoi lived in the same type of pit or circular dwelling as that of the Jōmon. Other examples of commonality are chipped stone tools for hunting, bone tools for fishing, shells in bracelet construction, and lacquer decoration for vessels and accessories.
According to several linguists, Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula. These "Peninsular Japonic languages" were replaced by [[Koreanic languages|Koreanic-speakers]] (possibly belonging to the [[Han languages|Han-branch]]) likely causing the Yayoi migration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Janhunen |first=Juha |date=2010 |title=RReconstructing the Language Map of Prehistorical Northeast Asia |journal=Studia Orientalia |number=108|quote=... there are strong indications that the neighbouring Baekje state (in the southwest) was predominantly Japonic-speaking until it was linguistically Koreanized.}}</ref><ref name=":1">Vovin, Alexander (2013). "From Koguryo to Tamna: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean". ''Korean Linguistics''. '''15''' (2): 222–240.</ref> Similarly Whitman (2012) suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they were present on the Korean peninsula during the [[Mumun pottery period]]. According to him, Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 [[BCe]] and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by the Yayoi at around 950 BCe. The language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi culture is Japonic. Koreanic arrived later from Manchuria to the Korean peninsula at around 300 BCe and coexist with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Whitman|first=John|date=2011-12-01|title=Northeast Asian Linguistic Ecology and the Advent of Rice Agriculture in Korea and Japan|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0|journal=Rice|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=149–158|doi=10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0|issn=1939-8433}}</ref>
The [[Yamato people]] are predominantly descendants of the [[Yayoi people]] and are closely related to other modern East Asians, especially [[Koreans]] and [[Han Chinese]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/04/10/common-ancestor-of-han-chinese-japanese-and-koreans-dated-to-3000-3600-years-ago/|title=Common ancestor of Han Chinese, Japanese and Koreans dated to 3000 – 3600 years ago|last=approaches|first=Dr Xu is using computational|last2=Populations|first2=Developing New Methods to Dissect Genetic Architecture of Human|date=2018-04-10|website=On Biology|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-17|last3=Features|first3=Quantitatively Characterize Their Admixture|last4=History|first4=Reveal Their Migration|last5=Divergence|first5=Adaptive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14469236/east-asian-genetic-sequencing-ancestors-history-hunter-gatherers|title=Today's East Asians are very genetically similar to their ancient ancestors|last=Chen|first=Angela|date=2017-02-01|website=The Verge|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> It is estimated that the majority of Japanese only has about 12% [[Jōmon]] ancestry or even less.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/fukayomi/20171214-OYT8T50003/|title=「縄文人」は独自進化したアジアの特異集団だった！ : 深読み|date=2017-12-15|website=読売新聞オンライン|language=ja|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> A genome research (Takahashi et al. 2019) shows that modern Japanese (Yamato) do not have much Jōmon ancestry at all. Nuclear genome analysis of Jōmon samples and modern Japanese samples show strong differences.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nara|first=Takashi|last2=Adachi|first2=Noboru|last3=Yoneda|first3=Minoru|last4=Hagihara|first4=Yasuo|last5=Saeki|first5=Fumiko|last6=Koibuchi|first6=Ryoko|last7=Takahashi|first7=Ryohei|date=2019|title=Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the human skeletons excavated from the Shomyoji shell midden site, Kanagawa, Japan|url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/127/1/127_190307/_html/-char/ja|journal=Anthropological Science|language=en|volume=127|issue=1|pages=65–72|doi=10.1537/ase.190307|issn=0918-7960}}</ref> A recent estimation suggests that modern Japanese have only about 10% Jōmon genome.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|language=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
=== Languages ===
{{Main|Classification of the Japonic languages}}
Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the [[Japonic languages|Japonic language family]] was introduced to the archipelago during the Yayoi period.
===Emergence of ''Wo'' in Chinese history texts ===
[[File:King of Na gold seal faces.jpg|thumb|The golden seal said to have been granted to the "King of [[Wo (Japan)|Wo]]" by [[Emperor Guangwu of Han]] in 57 AD. It is inscribed ''King of Na of Wo in Han Dynasty'' (漢委奴國王)]]
The earliest written records about people in Japan are from [[China|Chinese]] sources from this period. [[Wo (Japan)|Wo]], the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the [[Nakoku|Na state]] of Wo received a golden seal from the [[Emperor Guangwu of Han|Emperor Guangwu]] of the Later [[Han dynasty]]. This event was recorded in the [[Book of the Later Han]] compiled by [[Fan Ye (historian)|Fan Ye]] in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/en/exhibition.html|title=Gold Seal (Kin-in)|publisher=Fukuoka City Museum|accessdate=2007-11-10}}</ref> Wo was also mentioned in 257 in the ''Wei zhi'', a section of the [[Records of the Three Kingdoms]] compiled by the 3rd-century scholar [[Chen Shou]].<ref>[http://www.geocities.jp/mb1527/wajinden.htm 魏志倭人伝], Chinese texts and its Japanese translation</ref>
Early Chinese historians described Wo as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities rather than the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the 8th-century work [[Nihon Shoki]], a partly mythical, partly historical account of Japan which dates the foundation of the country at 660 BC. Archaeological evidence also suggests that frequent conflicts between settlements or statelets broke out in the period. Many excavated settlements were moated or built at the tops of hills. Headless human skeletons<ref>[http://www.nipec.niigata.niigata.jp/cec/yosinogari/09_ohaka1/03_syutudo_hito/k-yic2.jpg 首なしの人骨]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Niigata Prefectural Education Center</ref> discovered in [[Yoshinogari site]] are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the [[Seto Inland Sea|Inland Sea]], stone arrowheads are often found among funerary objects.
Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw fish, vegetables, and rice served on bamboo and wooden trays, clapped their hands in worship (something still done in [[Shinto shrine]]s today), and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterized by violent struggles.
===Yamataikoku===
[[File:Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg|thumb|right|Hashihaka kofun, [[Sakurai, Nara]]]]
The ''Wei Zhi'' ({{zh|魏志}}), which is part of the Records of the three Kingdoms, first mentions [[Yamataikoku]] and Queen [[Himiko]] in the 3rd century. According to the record, Himiko assumed the throne of Wa, as a spiritual leader, after a [[Civil war of Wa|major civil war]]. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court [[Cao Wei|Kingdom of Wei]].<ref>[http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E5%BF%97%E5%80%AD%E4%BA%BA%E4%BC%9D 魏志倭人伝], Chinese texts of the ''Wei Zhi'', [[Wikisource]]</ref> When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the [[Taibo]] of [[Wu (region)|Wu]], a historic figure of the [[Wu (state)|Wu Kingdom]] around the [[Yangtze River Delta|Yangtze Delta]] of China. {{Citation needed|reason=Is this really mentioned in the Wei Zhi?|date=January 2019}}
For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, [[Yoshinogari, Saga|Yoshinogari]] in [[Saga Prefecture]] and [[Makimuku]] in [[Nara Prefecture]] have been suggested.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/1446|title=ヤマト王権はいかにして始まったか|last=Karako-kagi Archaeological Museum|date=2007|website=Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan|access-date=2016-09-01}}</ref> Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.<ref>[http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20080306AT5C0501C05032008.html 古墳２タイプ、同時に出現か・奈良の古墳群で判明], Nikkei Net, March 6, 2008</ref><ref>[http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm 最古級の奈良・桜井“３兄弟古墳”、形状ほぼ判明 卑弥呼の時代に相次いで築造] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308193428/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm |date=2008-03-08 }}, Sankei Shimbun, March 6, 2008</ref> Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko. Its relation to the origin of the [[Yamato polity]] in the following [[Kofun period]] is also under debate.
== See also ==
{{portal|Ancient Japan}}
* [[Japanese era name#Unofficial era name system|Japanese era name]]
* [[Xu Fu]]
* [[Emishi people]]
== References ==
{{reflist}}
==Books cited==
* {{cite book |last=Habu |first=Junko |year=2004 |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan |publisher=Cambridge Press |location=Cambridge, MA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGnAbTyTynsC |isbn=978-0-521-77670-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Schirokauer |first=Conrad |year=2013 |title=A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations |publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning |location=Boston }}
* {{cite book |last=Silberman |first=Neil Asher |year=2012 |title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York}}
== External links ==
{{Commons|Yayoi period}}
*[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm Yayoi Culture], Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
*[http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/yayoi_jidai.html Yayoi period] at [http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/index.html Japanese History Online (under construction)]
*[http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM An article] by Richard Hooker on the Yayoi and the Jōmon.
*[http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/en Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan], Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
*[http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news146.htm Article "Japanese Roots Surprisingly Shallow" from Japan Times]
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The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated 1,000 BC – 300 AD, started at the beginning of the [[Neolithic]] in Japan, continued through the [[Bronze Age]xn], and towards its end cjdjrossing into the [[Iron Age]].<ref name="Silberman2012"/><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012"/><ref name="Shinya"/>
Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the [[Jōmon period]] should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.<ref>{{jdjf book |surname=Habu |given=Jhchunko |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan bn=978-0-521-77670-7 |page=7258}}</ref> The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimatesbz ranging from the 1hhd0th to the 6th centuries BC.<ref name="Shinya">{{cite journal the Yayoi Periodhx Dating Controversy |journalbdj=hxBulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology |surname=Shōda |given=Shhxinya |year=2007 |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise offj the State |given=Koji |surname=Mizoguchi |publisher=C Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-521-88490-7 |pages=35–36 }}</ref>
The period is named after the [[Yayoi, Tokyo|neighborhood]] of [[Tokyo]] where [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new [[Yy]] styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in [[paddy field]]s. A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and djxhhas its origin in China. Techniques in [[metallurgy]] based on the use of [[bronze]] and [[iron]] were also introduced from China over Korea to Japan in this period.
The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period (14,000–1,000 BC) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern [[Kyūshū]] to northern [[Honshū]]. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of lduur from the Asian continent to Japan absorbed or overwhelmed the native [[hunter-gatherer]] population. Modern Japanese a descendants of the [[Yayoi people]].<ref>{{Cite webxnc|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|languenx=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>|image=YxbayoiJar.JPG |Yayoi jar, 1st-3rd century, excavated in Kugahara, [[Ōta, Tokyo]]}}fj
The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated
== Features ==
[[File:YoshinogariIseki.jpg|thumb|[[Yoshinogari site]] reconstruction]]
The Yayoi period is traditionally dated from 300 BC to 300 AD.<ref name="keally-yayoi">{{cite web |url=http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/yayoi.html |title=Yayoi Culture |first=Charles T. |last=Keally |date=2006-06-03 |work=Japanese Archaeology |publisher=Charles T. Keally |accessdate=2010-03-19}}</ref> However, radio-carbon evidence suggests a date up to 500 years earlier, between 1,000 and 800 BC.<ref name="Silberman2012">Silberman et al., 154–155.</ref><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012">Schirokauer et al., 133–143.</ref><ref name="Shinya"/> During this period Japan transitioned to a settled agricultural society.<ref>{{cite book | given = Stuart D. B. | surname = Picken | pages = 13 | title = Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business| publisher = Scarecrow Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | given = Keiji | surname = Imamura | pages = 13 | title = Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia | publisher = University of Hawaii Press}}</ref>
The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi is found on northern [[Kyūshū]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/e_kenkyuu/report2004.html|title=Annual Report on Research Activity 2004|author=|date=|website=www.rekihaku.ac.jp}}</ref> but that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/article/viewFile/255/245|title=Eastern Japanese Pottery During the Jomon-Yayoi Transition: A Study in Forager-Farmer Interaction |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923052256/http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/article/viewFile/255/245 |archivedate=2009-09-23 |deadurl=yes |author=Seiji Kobayashi |publisher=[[Kokugakuin Tochigi Junior College]]}}</ref> A recent study that used [[accelerator mass spectrometry]] to analyze carbonized remains on pottery and wooden stakes, suggests that they dated back to 900–800 BC, 500 years earlier than previously believed.<ref name="Shinya"/>
The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in [[Tokyo]] where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.<ref>{{cite book | given = Keiji | surname = Imamura | pages = 13 | title = Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia | publisher = University of Hawaii Press}}</ref> Yayoi [[pottery]] was simply decorated and produced using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm</ref> Yayoi craft specialists made [[bronze]] ceremonial bells (''[[dōtaku]]''), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi farmers began using [[iron]] agricultural tools and weapons.
As the Yayoi population increased, the society became more stratified and complex. They wove [[textiles]], lived in permanent farming villages, and constructed buildings with wood and stone. They also accumulated wealth through land ownership and the storage of grain. Such factors promoted the development of distinct social classes. Contemporary Chinese sources described the people as having [[tattoos]] and other bodily markings which indicated differences in social status.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Lock |first=Margaret |title=Japanese |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of World Cultures CD-ROM |url=http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/japan.htm |access-date=July 10, 2015 |year=1998 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |location= |id= }}</ref> Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.<ref>[[Richard J. Pearson|Pearson, Richard J.]] Chiefly Exchange Between Kyushu and Okinawa, Japan, in the Yayoi Period. ''Antiquity'' 64(245)912–922, 1990.</ref> That was possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice culture from the [[Yangtze River|Yangtze]] estuary in southern [[China]] via the [[Ryukyu Islands]] or [[Korean Peninsula]].<ref name="keally-yayoi"/><ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/05/earlier-start-japanese-rice-cultivation Earlier Start for Japanese Rice Cultivation], Dennis Normile, Science, 2003 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160707223555/http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/05/earlier-start-japanese-rice-cultivation archive])</ref> Wet-rice agriculture led to the development and growth of a sedentary, agrarian society in Japan. Local political and social developments in Japan were more important than the activities of the central authority within a stratified society.{{citation needed|date=March 2008}}
Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.<ref>[http://www2.edu.ipa.go.jp/gz/k-kda1/k-kca1/k-ksa1/IPA-joe100.htm 縄文人の顔と骨格-骨格の比較] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223125145/http://www2.edu.ipa.go.jp/gz/k-kda1/k-kca1/k-ksa1/IPA-joe100.htm |date=2007-12-23 }}, Information-technology Promotion Agency</ref> The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more wide-set eyes, shorter and wider faces, and much more pronounced facial topography. They also have strikingly raised brow ridges, noses, and nose bridges. Yayoi people, on the other hand, averaged an inch or two taller, with close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. By the [[Kofun period]], almost all skeletons excavated in Japan except those of the [[Ainu people|Ainu]] are of the Yayoi type with Jomon admixture,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ir.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/bitstream/123456789/146/2/04_doi.pdf|title=: University of the Ryukyus Repository|author=|date=|website=ir.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp}}</ref> resembling those of modern-day Japanese.<ref name="JapaneseRoots">{{cite journal |author= Jared Diamond|date=June 1, 1998 |title=Japanese Roots |journal=Discover Magazine |volume=19|issue=6 June 1998 |url=http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455/ |accessdate=<!--08:36 (UTC)--> 14 December 2013|author-link=Jared Diamond }}</ref>
== History ==
===Origin of the Yayoi people===
{{Main|Yayoi people}}
{{see also|Genetic history of East Asians}}
[[File:Yayoi people Restoration model.jpg|thumb|right|[[Forensic facial reconstruction|Reconstruction]] of [[Yayoi people]] from the [[National Museum of Nature and Science]] in [[Tokyo]].]]
[[File:Korea Strait.png|thumb|left|Northern Kyushu is the part of Japan closest to the Asian mainland.]]
The origin of Yayoi culture and the [[Yayoi people]] has long been debated. The earliest archaeological sites are Itazuke or Nabata in the northern part of Kyūshū. Contacts between fishing communities on this coast and the southern coast of Korea date from the Jōmon period, as witnessed by the exchange of trade items such as fishhooks and obsidians.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 54.</ref> During the Yayoi period, cultural features from China and Korea arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.<ref>{{cite book | chapter = The earliest societies in Japan | given = J. Edward, Jr. | surname = Kidder | pages = 48–107 | title = Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1: Ancient Japan | editor-given = Delmer | editor-surname = Brown | editor-link = Delmer Brown | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-521-22352-2}} p. 81.</ref> This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 53.</ref>
Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, [[Bronze mirror|dōkyō]], [[dōtaku]], as well as irrigated paddy rice cultivation. Three major symbols of Yayoi culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.
Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's [[National Museum of Nature and Science]], compared Yayoi remains found in Japan's [[Yamaguchi Prefecture|Yamaguchi]] and [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]] prefectures with those from China's coastal [[Jiangsu]] province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kahaku.go.jp/special/past/japanese/ipix/5/5-14.html|title=Long Journey to Prehistorical Japan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421054014/http://www.kahaku.go.jp/special/past/japanese/ipix/5/5-14.html|archive-date=21 April 2015|publisher=National Science Museum of Japan|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news111.htm |title=Yayoi linked to Yangtze area: DNA tests reveal similarities to early wet-rice farmers|newspaper=The Japan Times|date=March 19, 1999}}</ref>
[[File:DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg|thumb|left|A Yayoi period [[dōtaku]] bell, 3rd century AD]]
Some scholars have concluded that Korean influence existed. [[Mark J. Hudson]] has cited archaeological evidence that included "bounded paddy fields, new types of polished stone tools, wooden farming implements, iron tools, weaving technology, ceramic storage jars, exterior bonding of clay coils in pottery fabrication, ditched settlements, domesticated pigs, and jawbone rituals."<ref>{{cite book | author=Mark J. Hudson | title=Ruins of Identity Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands | publisher =University Hawai'i Press | year=1999 | isbn=0-8248-2156-4}}</ref> The migrant transfusion from the Korean peninsula gains strength because Yayoi culture began on the north coast of Kyūshū, where Japan is closest to Korea. Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, and food preservation were discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea.<ref name="Diamond">{{cite journal |author= Jared Diamond|date=June 1, 1998 |title=Japanese Roots |journal=Discover Magazine |volume=19|issue=6, June 1998 |url=http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455/ |accessdate=2008-05-12 | quote = Unlike Jomon pottery, Yayoi pottery was very similar to contemporary South Korean pottery in shape. Many other elements of the new Yayoi culture were unmistakably Korean and previously foreign to Japan, including bronze objects, weaving, glass beads, and styles of tools and houses.|author-link=Jared Diamond }}</ref>
[[File:Bronze Mirror in Ancient Japan.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bronze mirror]] excavated in Tsubai-otsukayama kofun, [[Yamashiro, Kyoto]]]]
However, some scholars argue that the rapid increase of roughly four million people in Japan between the Jōmon and Yayoi periods cannot be explained by migration alone. They attribute the increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice. It is quite likely that rice cultivation and its subsequent deification allowed for a slow and gradual population increase.<ref>Mizoguchi (2013), p. 119.</ref> Regardless, there is archaeological evidence that supports the idea that there was an influx of farmers from the continent to Japan that absorbed or overwhelmed the native hunter-gatherer population.<ref name="Diamond"/>
Some pieces of Yayoi pottery clearly show the influence of Jōmon ceramics. In addition, the Yayoi lived in the same type of pit or circular dwelling as that of the Jōmon. Other examples of commonality are chipped stone tools for hunting, bone tools for fishing, shells in bracelet construction, and lacquer decoration for vessels and accessories.
According to several linguists, Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula. These "Peninsular Japonic languages" were replaced by [[Koreanic languages|Koreanic-speakers]] (possibly belonging to the [[Han languages|Han-branch]]) likely causing the Yayoi migration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Janhunen |first=Juha |date=2010 |title=RReconstructing the Language Map of Prehistorical Northeast Asia |journal=Studia Orientalia |number=108|quote=... there are strong indications that the neighbouring Baekje state (in the southwest) was predominantly Japonic-speaking until it was linguistically Koreanized.}}</ref><ref name=":1">Vovin, Alexander (2013). "From Koguryo to Tamna: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean". ''Korean Linguistics''. '''15''' (2): 222–240.</ref> Similarly Whitman (2012) suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they were present on the Korean peninsula during the [[Mumun pottery period]]. According to him, Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 [[BCe]] and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by the Yayoi at around 950 BCe. The language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi culture is Japonic. Koreanic arrived later from Manchuria to the Korean peninsula at around 300 BCe and coexist with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Whitman|first=John|date=2011-12-01|title=Northeast Asian Linguistic Ecology and the Advent of Rice Agriculture in Korea and Japan|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0|journal=Rice|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=149–158|doi=10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0|issn=1939-8433}}</ref>
The [[Yamato people]] are predominantly descendants of the [[Yayoi people]] and are closely related to other modern East Asians, especially [[Koreans]] and [[Han Chinese]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/04/10/common-ancestor-of-han-chinese-japanese-and-koreans-dated-to-3000-3600-years-ago/|title=Common ancestor of Han Chinese, Japanese and Koreans dated to 3000 – 3600 years ago|last=approaches|first=Dr Xu is using computational|last2=Populations|first2=Developing New Methods to Dissect Genetic Architecture of Human|date=2018-04-10|website=On Biology|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-17|last3=Features|first3=Quantitatively Characterize Their Admixture|last4=History|first4=Reveal Their Migration|last5=Divergence|first5=Adaptive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14469236/east-asian-genetic-sequencing-ancestors-history-hunter-gatherers|title=Today's East Asians are very genetically similar to their ancient ancestors|last=Chen|first=Angela|date=2017-02-01|website=The Verge|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> It is estimated that the majority of Japanese only has about 12% [[Jōmon]] ancestry or even less.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/fukayomi/20171214-OYT8T50003/|title=「縄文人」は独自進化したアジアの特異集団だった！ : 深読み|date=2017-12-15|website=読売新聞オンライン|language=ja|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> A genome research (Takahashi et al. 2019) shows that modern Japanese (Yamato) do not have much Jōmon ancestry at all. Nuclear genome analysis of Jōmon samples and modern Japanese samples show strong differences.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nara|first=Takashi|last2=Adachi|first2=Noboru|last3=Yoneda|first3=Minoru|last4=Hagihara|first4=Yasuo|last5=Saeki|first5=Fumiko|last6=Koibuchi|first6=Ryoko|last7=Takahashi|first7=Ryohei|date=2019|title=Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the human skeletons excavated from the Shomyoji shell midden site, Kanagawa, Japan|url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/127/1/127_190307/_html/-char/ja|journal=Anthropological Science|language=en|volume=127|issue=1|pages=65–72|doi=10.1537/ase.190307|issn=0918-7960}}</ref> A recent estimation suggests that modern Japanese have only about 10% Jōmon genome.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|language=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
=== Languages ===
{{Main|Classification of the Japonic languages}}
Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the [[Japonic languages|Japonic language family]] was introduced to the archipelago during the Yayoi period.
===Emergence of ''Wo'' in Chinese history texts ===
[[File:King of Na gold seal faces.jpg|thumb|The golden seal said to have been granted to the "King of [[Wo (Japan)|Wo]]" by [[Emperor Guangwu of Han]] in 57 AD. It is inscribed ''King of Na of Wo in Han Dynasty'' (漢委奴國王)]]
The earliest written records about people in Japan are from [[China|Chinese]] sources from this period. [[Wo (Japan)|Wo]], the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the [[Nakoku|Na state]] of Wo received a golden seal from the [[Emperor Guangwu of Han|Emperor Guangwu]] of the Later [[Han dynasty]]. This event was recorded in the [[Book of the Later Han]] compiled by [[Fan Ye (historian)|Fan Ye]] in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/en/exhibition.html|title=Gold Seal (Kin-in)|publisher=Fukuoka City Museum|accessdate=2007-11-10}}</ref> Wo was also mentioned in 257 in the ''Wei zhi'', a section of the [[Records of the Three Kingdoms]] compiled by the 3rd-century scholar [[Chen Shou]].<ref>[http://www.geocities.jp/mb1527/wajinden.htm 魏志倭人伝], Chinese texts and its Japanese translation</ref>
Early Chinese historians described Wo as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities rather than the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the 8th-century work [[Nihon Shoki]], a partly mythical, partly historical account of Japan which dates the foundation of the country at 660 BC. Archaeological evidence also suggests that frequent conflicts between settlements or statelets broke out in the period. Many excavated settlements were moated or built at the tops of hills. Headless human skeletons<ref>[http://www.nipec.niigata.niigata.jp/cec/yosinogari/09_ohaka1/03_syutudo_hito/k-yic2.jpg 首なしの人骨]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Niigata Prefectural Education Center</ref> discovered in [[Yoshinogari site]] are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the [[Seto Inland Sea|Inland Sea]], stone arrowheads are often found among funerary objects.
Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw fish, vegetables, and rice served on bamboo and wooden trays, clapped their hands in worship (something still done in [[Shinto shrine]]s today), and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterized by violent struggles.
===Yamataikoku===
[[File:Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg|thumb|right|Hashihaka kofun, [[Sakurai, Nara]]]]
The ''Wei Zhi'' ({{zh|魏志}}), which is part of the Records of the three Kingdoms, first mentions [[Yamataikoku]] and Queen [[Himiko]] in the 3rd century. According to the record, Himiko assumed the throne of Wa, as a spiritual leader, after a [[Civil war of Wa|major civil war]]. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court [[Cao Wei|Kingdom of Wei]].<ref>[http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E5%BF%97%E5%80%AD%E4%BA%BA%E4%BC%9D 魏志倭人伝], Chinese texts of the ''Wei Zhi'', [[Wikisource]]</ref> When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the [[Taibo]] of [[Wu (region)|Wu]], a historic figure of the [[Wu (state)|Wu Kingdom]] around the [[Yangtze River Delta|Yangtze Delta]] of China. {{Citation needed|reason=Is this really mentioned in the Wei Zhi?|date=January 2019}}
For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, [[Yoshinogari, Saga|Yoshinogari]] in [[Saga Prefecture]] and [[Makimuku]] in [[Nara Prefecture]] have been suggested.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/1446|title=ヤマト王権はいかにして始まったか|last=Karako-kagi Archaeological Museum|date=2007|website=Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan|access-date=2016-09-01}}</ref> Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.<ref>[http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20080306AT5C0501C05032008.html 古墳２タイプ、同時に出現か・奈良の古墳群で判明], Nikkei Net, March 6, 2008</ref><ref>[http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm 最古級の奈良・桜井“３兄弟古墳”、形状ほぼ判明 卑弥呼の時代に相次いで築造] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308193428/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm |date=2008-03-08 }}, Sankei Shimbun, March 6, 2008</ref> Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko. Its relation to the origin of the [[Yamato polity]] in the following [[Kofun period]] is also under debate.
== See also ==
{{portal|Ancient Japan}}
* [[Japanese era name#Unofficial era name system|Japanese era name]]
* [[Xu Fu]]
* [[Emishi people]]
== References ==
{{reflist}}
==Books cited==
* {{cite book |last=Habu |first=Junko |year=2004 |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan |publisher=Cambridge Press |location=Cambridge, MA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGnAbTyTynsC |isbn=978-0-521-77670-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Schirokauer |first=Conrad |year=2013 |title=A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations |publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning |location=Boston }}
* {{cite book |last=Silberman |first=Neil Asher |year=2012 |title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York}}
== External links ==
{{Commons|Yayoi period}}
*[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm Yayoi Culture], Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
*[http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/yayoi_jidai.html Yayoi period] at [http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/index.html Japanese History Online (under construction)]
*[http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM An article] by Richard Hooker on the Yayoi and the Jōmon.
*[http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/en Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan], Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
*[http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news146.htm Article "Japanese Roots Surprisingly Shallow" from Japan Times]
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-The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated 1,000 BC – 300 AD, started at the beginning of the [[Neolithic]] in Japan, continued through the [[Bronze Age]], and towards its end crossing into the [[Iron Age]].<ref name="Silberman2012"/><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012"/><ref name="Shinya"/>
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+The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated 1,000 BC – 300 AD, started at the beginning of the [[Neolithic]] in Japan, continued through the [[Bronze Age]xn], and towards its end cjdjrossing into the [[Iron Age]].<ref name="Silberman2012"/><ref name="SchirokauerBrown2012"/><ref name="Shinya"/>
-Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the [[Jōmon period]] should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.<ref>{{cite book |surname=Habu |given=Junko |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-77670-7 |page=258}}</ref> The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 6th centuries BC.<ref name="Shinya">{{cite journal |url=http://www.seaa-web.org/bul-essay-01.htm |title=A Comment on the Yayoi Period Dating Controversy |journal=Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology |surname=Shōda |given=Shinya |year=2007 |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State |given=Koji |surname=Mizoguchi |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-521-88490-7 |pages=35–36 }}</ref>
+Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the [[Jōmon period]] should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.<ref>{{jdjf book |surname=Habu |given=Jhchunko |title=Ancient Jomon of Japan bn=978-0-521-77670-7 |page=7258}}</ref> The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimatesbz ranging from the 1hhd0th to the 6th centuries BC.<ref name="Shinya">{{cite journal the Yayoi Periodhx Dating Controversy |journalbdj=hxBulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology |surname=Shōda |given=Shhxinya |year=2007 |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise offj the State |given=Koji |surname=Mizoguchi |publisher=C Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-521-88490-7 |pages=35–36 }}</ref>
-The period is named after the [[Yayoi, Tokyo|neighborhood]] of [[Tokyo]] where [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new [[Yayoi pottery]] styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in [[paddy field]]s. A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and has its origin in China. Techniques in [[metallurgy]] based on the use of [[bronze]] and [[iron]] were also introduced from China over Korea to Japan in this period.
+The period is named after the [[Yayoi, Tokyo|neighborhood]] of [[Tokyo]] where [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new [[Yy]] styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in [[paddy field]]s. A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and djxhhas its origin in China. Techniques in [[metallurgy]] based on the use of [[bronze]] and [[iron]] were also introduced from China over Korea to Japan in this period.
-The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period (14,000–1,000 BC) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern [[Kyūshū]] to northern [[Honshū]]. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of farmers from the Asian continent to Japan absorbed or overwhelmed the native [[hunter-gatherer]] population. Modern Japanese are largely descendants of the [[Yayoi people]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|language=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
+The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period (14,000–1,000 BC) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern [[Kyūshū]] to northern [[Honshū]]. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of lduur from the Asian continent to Japan absorbed or overwhelmed the native [[hunter-gatherer]] population. Modern Japanese a descendants of the [[Yayoi people]].<ref>{{Cite webxnc|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/555/|title='Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|website=NHK WORLD|languenx=en|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>|image=YxbayoiJar.JPG |Yayoi jar, 1st-3rd century, excavated in Kugahara, [[Ōta, Tokyo]]}}fj
+The {{nihongo|'''Yayoi period'''|弥生時代|Yayoi jidai}}, dated
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</p><p>The <b>Yayoi period</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span lang="ja">弥生時代</span><span style="display:none">,</span> <i>Yayoi jidai</i>)</span>, dated 1,000 BC – 300 AD, started at the beginning of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> in Japan, continued through the [[Bronze Age]xn], and towards its end cjdjrossing into the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Silberman2012_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silberman2012-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SchirokauerBrown2012_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SchirokauerBrown2012-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shinya_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shinya-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period" title="Jōmon period">Jōmon period</a> should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimatesbz ranging from the 1hhd0th to the 6th centuries BC.<sup id="cite_ref-Shinya_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shinya-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>The period is named after the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi,_Tokyo" title="Yayoi, Tokyo">neighborhood</a> of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> where <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">archaeologists</a> first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yy" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Yy">Yy</a> styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Paddy_field" title="Paddy field">paddy fields</a>. A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and djxhhas its origin in China. Techniques in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Metallurgy" title="Metallurgy">metallurgy</a> based on the use of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a> were also introduced from China over Korea to Japan in this period.
</p><p>The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period (14,000–1,000 BC) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyūshū">Kyūshū</a> to northern <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Honsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Honshū">Honshū</a>. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of lduur from the Asian continent to Japan absorbed or overwhelmed the native <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherer</a> population. Modern Japanese a descendants of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi_people" title="Yayoi people">Yayoi people</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>|image=YxbayoiJar.JPG |Yayoi jar, 1st-3rd century, excavated in Kugahara, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/%C5%8Cta,_Tokyo" title="Ōta, Tokyo">Ōta, Tokyo</a>}}fj
The <b>Yayoi period</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span lang="ja">弥生時代</span><span style="display:none">,</span> <i>Yayoi jidai</i>)</span>, dated
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Features">Features</span><span class="mw-editsection"><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle/dummy_title_for_API_calls_set_in_api.php&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Features" data-section="1" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-element mw-ui-icon-minerva-edit-enabled edit-page">Edit</a></span></h2>
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<p>The Yayoi period is traditionally dated from 300 BC to 300 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-keally-yayoi_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keally-yayoi-7">[7]</a></sup> However, radio-carbon evidence suggests a date up to 500 years earlier, between 1,000 and 800 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-Silberman2012_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silberman2012-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SchirokauerBrown2012_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SchirokauerBrown2012-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shinya_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shinya-3">[3]</a></sup> During this period Japan transitioned to a settled agricultural society.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup>
</p><p>The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi is found on northern <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyūshū">Kyūshū</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> but that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> A recent study that used <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Accelerator_mass_spectrometry" title="Accelerator mass spectrometry">accelerator mass spectrometry</a> to analyze carbonized remains on pottery and wooden stakes, suggests that they dated back to 900–800 BC, 500 years earlier than previously believed.<sup id="cite_ref-Shinya_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shinya-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> Yayoi <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pottery" title="Pottery">pottery</a> was simply decorated and produced using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> Yayoi craft specialists made <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a> ceremonial bells (<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/D%C5%8Dtaku" title="Dōtaku">dōtaku</a></i>), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi farmers began using <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a> agricultural tools and weapons.
</p><p>As the Yayoi population increased, the society became more stratified and complex. They wove <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Textiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Textiles">textiles</a>, lived in permanent farming villages, and constructed buildings with wood and stone. They also accumulated wealth through land ownership and the storage of grain. Such factors promoted the development of distinct social classes. Contemporary Chinese sources described the people as having <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tattoos" class="mw-redirect" title="Tattoos">tattoos</a> and other bodily markings which indicated differences in social status.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> That was possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice culture from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yangtze_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Yangtze River">Yangtze</a> estuary in southern <a href="/enwiki/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> via the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands" title="Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a> or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Korean_Peninsula" title="Korean Peninsula">Korean Peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-keally-yayoi_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keally-yayoi-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> Wet-rice agriculture led to the development and growth of a sedentary, agrarian society in Japan. Local political and social developments in Japan were more important than the activities of the central authority within a stratified society.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more wide-set eyes, shorter and wider faces, and much more pronounced facial topography. They also have strikingly raised brow ridges, noses, and nose bridges. Yayoi people, on the other hand, averaged an inch or two taller, with close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. By the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kofun_period" title="Kofun period">Kofun period</a>, almost all skeletons excavated in Japan except those of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ainu_people" title="Ainu people">Ainu</a> are of the Yayoi type with Jomon admixture,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> resembling those of modern-day Japanese.<sup id="cite_ref-JapaneseRoots_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JapaneseRoots-19">[19]</a></sup>
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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi_people" title="Yayoi people">Yayoi people</a></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Genetic_history_of_East_Asians" title="Genetic history of East Asians">Genetic history of East Asians</a></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Yayoi_people_Restoration_model.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Yayoi_people_Restoration_model.jpg/220px-Yayoi_people_Restoration_model.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3200" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Yayoi_people_Restoration_model.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Forensic_facial_reconstruction" title="Forensic facial reconstruction">Reconstruction</a> of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi_people" title="Yayoi people">Yayoi people</a> from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science" title="National Museum of Nature and Science">National Museum of Nature and Science</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>.</div></div></div>
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<p>The origin of Yayoi culture and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi_people" title="Yayoi people">Yayoi people</a> has long been debated. The earliest archaeological sites are Itazuke or Nabata in the northern part of Kyūshū. Contacts between fishing communities on this coast and the southern coast of Korea date from the Jōmon period, as witnessed by the exchange of trade items such as fishhooks and obsidians.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> During the Yayoi period, cultural features from China and Korea arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup> This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup>
</p><p>Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bronze_mirror" title="Bronze mirror">dōkyō</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/D%C5%8Dtaku" title="Dōtaku">dōtaku</a>, as well as irrigated paddy rice cultivation. Three major symbols of Yayoi culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.
</p><p>Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science" title="National Museum of Nature and Science">National Museum of Nature and Science</a>, compared Yayoi remains found in Japan's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamaguchi_Prefecture" title="Yamaguchi Prefecture">Yamaguchi</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fukuoka_Prefecture" title="Fukuoka Prefecture">Fukuoka</a> prefectures with those from China's coastal <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu</a> province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup>
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<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg/220px-DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="2147" data-file-height="2863" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A Yayoi period <a href="/enwiki/wiki/D%C5%8Dtaku" title="Dōtaku">dōtaku</a> bell, 3rd century AD</div></div></div>
<p>Some scholars have concluded that Korean influence existed. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mark_J._Hudson" title="Mark J. Hudson">Mark J. Hudson</a> has cited archaeological evidence that included "bounded paddy fields, new types of polished stone tools, wooden farming implements, iron tools, weaving technology, ceramic storage jars, exterior bonding of clay coils in pottery fabrication, ditched settlements, domesticated pigs, and jawbone rituals."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> The migrant transfusion from the Korean peninsula gains strength because Yayoi culture began on the north coast of Kyūshū, where Japan is closest to Korea. Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, and food preservation were discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea.<sup id="cite_ref-Diamond_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-26">[26]</a></sup>
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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Bronze_Mirror_in_Ancient_Japan.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Bronze_Mirror_in_Ancient_Japan.jpg/220px-Bronze_Mirror_in_Ancient_Japan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="976" data-file-height="957" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Bronze_Mirror_in_Ancient_Japan.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bronze_mirror" title="Bronze mirror">Bronze mirror</a> excavated in Tsubai-otsukayama kofun, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamashiro,_Kyoto" title="Yamashiro, Kyoto">Yamashiro, Kyoto</a></div></div></div>
<p>However, some scholars argue that the rapid increase of roughly four million people in Japan between the Jōmon and Yayoi periods cannot be explained by migration alone. They attribute the increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice. It is quite likely that rice cultivation and its subsequent deification allowed for a slow and gradual population increase.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup> Regardless, there is archaeological evidence that supports the idea that there was an influx of farmers from the continent to Japan that absorbed or overwhelmed the native hunter-gatherer population.<sup id="cite_ref-Diamond_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-26">[26]</a></sup>
</p><p>Some pieces of Yayoi pottery clearly show the influence of Jōmon ceramics. In addition, the Yayoi lived in the same type of pit or circular dwelling as that of the Jōmon. Other examples of commonality are chipped stone tools for hunting, bone tools for fishing, shells in bracelet construction, and lacquer decoration for vessels and accessories.
</p><p>According to several linguists, Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula. These "Peninsular Japonic languages" were replaced by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Koreanic_languages" title="Koreanic languages">Koreanic-speakers</a> (possibly belonging to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Han_languages" title="Han languages">Han-branch</a>) likely causing the Yayoi migration.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-29">[29]</a></sup> Similarly Whitman (2012) suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they were present on the Korean peninsula during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mumun_pottery_period" title="Mumun pottery period">Mumun pottery period</a>. According to him, Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/BCe" class="mw-redirect" title="BCe">BCe</a> and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by the Yayoi at around 950 BCe. The language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi culture is Japonic. Koreanic arrived later from Manchuria to the Korean peninsula at around 300 BCe and coexist with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamato_people" title="Yamato people">Yamato people</a> are predominantly descendants of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yayoi_people" title="Yayoi people">Yayoi people</a> and are closely related to other modern East Asians, especially <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Koreans" title="Koreans">Koreans</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Han_Chinese" title="Han Chinese">Han Chinese</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup> It is estimated that the majority of Japanese only has about 12% <a href="/enwiki/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon" class="mw-redirect" title="Jōmon">Jōmon</a> ancestry or even less.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> A genome research (Takahashi et al. 2019) shows that modern Japanese (Yamato) do not have much Jōmon ancestry at all. Nuclear genome analysis of Jōmon samples and modern Japanese samples show strong differences.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup> A recent estimation suggests that modern Japanese have only about 10% Jōmon genome.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup>
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<p>Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japonic_languages" title="Japonic languages">Japonic language family</a> was introduced to the archipelago during the Yayoi period.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Emergence_of_Wo_in_Chinese_history_texts">Emergence of <i>Wo</i> in Chinese history texts</span><span class="mw-editsection"><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle/dummy_title_for_API_calls_set_in_api.php&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Emergence of Wo in Chinese history texts" data-section="5" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-element mw-ui-icon-minerva-edit-enabled edit-page">Edit</a></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:King_of_Na_gold_seal_faces.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/King_of_Na_gold_seal_faces.jpg/220px-King_of_Na_gold_seal_faces.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="4142" data-file-height="2066" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:King_of_Na_gold_seal_faces.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The golden seal said to have been granted to the "King of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wo_(Japan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wo (Japan)">Wo</a>" by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emperor_Guangwu_of_Han" title="Emperor Guangwu of Han">Emperor Guangwu of Han</a> in 57 AD. It is inscribed <i>King of Na of Wo in Han Dynasty</i> (漢委奴國王)</div></div></div>
<p>The earliest written records about people in Japan are from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> sources from this period. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wo_(Japan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wo (Japan)">Wo</a>, the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nakoku" title="Nakoku">Na state</a> of Wo received a golden seal from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emperor_Guangwu_of_Han" title="Emperor Guangwu of Han">Emperor Guangwu</a> of the Later <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a>. This event was recorded in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Book_of_the_Later_Han" title="Book of the Later Han">Book of the Later Han</a> compiled by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fan_Ye_(historian)" title="Fan Ye (historian)">Fan Ye</a> in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup> Wo was also mentioned in 257 in the <i>Wei zhi</i>, a section of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Records_of_the_Three_Kingdoms" title="Records of the Three Kingdoms">Records of the Three Kingdoms</a> compiled by the 3rd-century scholar <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chen_Shou" title="Chen Shou">Chen Shou</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup>
</p><p>Early Chinese historians described Wo as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities rather than the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the 8th-century work <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nihon_Shoki" title="Nihon Shoki">Nihon Shoki</a>, a partly mythical, partly historical account of Japan which dates the foundation of the country at 660 BC. Archaeological evidence also suggests that frequent conflicts between settlements or statelets broke out in the period. Many excavated settlements were moated or built at the tops of hills. Headless human skeletons<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup> discovered in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yoshinogari_site" title="Yoshinogari site">Yoshinogari site</a> are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seto_Inland_Sea" title="Seto Inland Sea">Inland Sea</a>, stone arrowheads are often found among funerary objects.
</p><p>Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw fish, vegetables, and rice served on bamboo and wooden trays, clapped their hands in worship (something still done in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shinto_shrine" title="Shinto shrine">Shinto shrines</a> today), and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterized by violent struggles.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Yamataikoku">Yamataikoku</span><span class="mw-editsection"><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle/dummy_title_for_API_calls_set_in_api.php&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Yamataikoku" data-section="6" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-element mw-ui-icon-minerva-edit-enabled edit-page">Edit</a></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg/220px-Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="1504" data-file-height="1000" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Hashihaka-kofun-1.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Hashihaka kofun, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sakurai,_Nara" title="Sakurai, Nara">Sakurai, Nara</a></div></div></div>
<p>The <i>Wei Zhi</i> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">魏志</span>), which is part of the Records of the three Kingdoms, first mentions <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamataikoku" class="mw-redirect" title="Yamataikoku">Yamataikoku</a> and Queen <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Himiko" title="Himiko">Himiko</a> in the 3rd century. According to the record, Himiko assumed the throne of Wa, as a spiritual leader, after a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Civil_war_of_Wa" title="Civil war of Wa">major civil war</a>. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cao_Wei" title="Cao Wei">Kingdom of Wei</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Taibo" title="Taibo">Taibo</a> of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wu_(region)" title="Wu (region)">Wu</a>, a historic figure of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wu_(state)" title="Wu (state)">Wu Kingdom</a> around the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yangtze_River_Delta" class="mw-redirect" title="Yangtze River Delta">Yangtze Delta</a> of China.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="Is this really mentioned in the Wei Zhi? (January 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yoshinogari,_Saga" title="Yoshinogari, Saga">Yoshinogari</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Saga_Prefecture" title="Saga Prefecture">Saga Prefecture</a> and <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Makimuku&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Makimuku (page does not exist)">Makimuku</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nara_Prefecture" title="Nara Prefecture">Nara Prefecture</a> have been suggested.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup> Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko. Its relation to the origin of the <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Yamato_polity&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yamato polity (page does not exist)">Yamato polity</a> in the following <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kofun_period" title="Kofun period">Kofun period</a> is also under debate.
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nipec.niigata.niigata.jp/cec/yosinogari/09_ohaka1/03_syutudo_hito/k-yic2.jpg">首なしの人骨</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link since December 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup>, Niigata Prefectural Education Center</span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E5%BF%97%E5%80%AD%E4%BA%BA%E4%BC%9D">魏志倭人伝</a>, Chinese texts of the <i>Wei Zhi</i>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web">Karako-kagi Archaeological Museum (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/1446">"ヤマト王権はいかにして始まったか"</a>. <i>Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-09-01</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Comprehensive+Database+of+Archaeological+Site+Reports+in+Japan&rft.atitle=%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E7%8E%8B%E6%A8%A9%E3%81%AF%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AB%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E5%A7%8B%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8B&rft.date=2007&rft.au=Karako-kagi+Archaeological+Museum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsitereports.nabunken.go.jp%2F1446&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYayoi+period" class="Z3988"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886058088"/></span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20080306AT5C0501C05032008.html">古墳２タイプ、同時に出現か・奈良の古墳群で判明</a>, Nikkei Net, March 6, 2008</span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm">最古級の奈良・桜井“３兄弟古墳”、形状ほぼ判明 卑弥呼の時代に相次いで築造</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080308193428/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080306/acd0803060039001-n1.htm">Archived</a> 2008-03-08 at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Sankei Shimbun, March 6, 2008</span>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Books_cited">Books cited</span><span class="mw-editsection"><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle/dummy_title_for_API_calls_set_in_api.php&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books cited" data-section="9" class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-element mw-ui-icon-minerva-edit-enabled edit-page">Edit</a></span></h2>
<ul><li><cite class="citation book">Habu, Junko (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vGnAbTyTynsC"><i>Ancient Jomon of Japan</i></a>. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Press. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-77670-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-77670-7"><bdi>978-0-521-77670-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Jomon+of+Japan&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Cambridge+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-521-77670-7&rft.aulast=Habu&rft.aufirst=Junko&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvGnAbTyTynsC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYayoi+period" class="Z3988"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886058088"/></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Schirokauer, Conrad (2013). <i>A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations</i>. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Brief+History+of+Chinese+and+Japanese+Civilizations&rft.place=Boston&rft.pub=Wadsworth+Cengage+Learning&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Schirokauer&rft.aufirst=Conrad&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYayoi+period" class="Z3988"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886058088"/></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Silberman, Neil Asher (2012). <i>The Oxford Companion to Archaeology</i>. New York: Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Companion+to+Archaeology&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.aulast=Silberman&rft.aufirst=Neil+Asher&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYayoi+period" class="Z3988"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886058088"/></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm">Yayoi Culture</a>, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/yayoi_jidai.html">Yayoi period</a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yamasa.org/history/english/index.html">Japanese History Online (under construction)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM">An article</a> by Richard Hooker on the Yayoi and the Jōmon.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/en">Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan</a>, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news146.htm">Article "Japanese Roots Surprisingly Shallow" from Japan Times</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bakumatsu" title="Bakumatsu">Bakumatsu</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Japan" title="List of lakes of Japan">Lakes</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Japan" title="LGBT rights in Japan">LGBT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Japan" title="Judicial system of Japan">Judiciary</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Communications_in_Japan" title="Communications in Japan">Telecommunications</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Transport_in_Japan" title="Transport in Japan">Transport</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Etiquette_in_Japan" title="Etiquette in Japan">Etiquette</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gambling_in_Japan" title="Gambling in Japan">Gambling</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Housing_in_Japan" title="Housing in Japan">Housing</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Languages_of_Japan" title="Languages of Japan">Languages</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Religion_in_Japan" title="Religion in Japan">Religion</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sexuality_in_Japan" title="Sexuality in Japan">Sexuality</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Smoking_in_Japan" title="Smoking in Japan">Smoking</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Women_in_Japan" title="Women in Japan">Women</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">Anime</a> / <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">Manga</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_architecture" title="Japanese architecture">Architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_art" title="Japanese art">Art</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bonsai" title="Bonsai">Bonsai</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cinema_of_Japan" title="Cinema of Japan">Cinema</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_cuisine" title="Japanese cuisine">Cuisine</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_festivals" title="Japanese festivals">Festivals</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_folklore" title="Japanese folklore">Folklore</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_garden" title="Japanese garden">Gardens</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Geisha" title="Geisha">Geisha</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_traditional_Japanese_games" title="List of traditional Japanese games">Games</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ikebana" title="Ikebana">Ikebana</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kawaii" title="Kawaii">Kawaii</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_literature" title="Japanese literature">Literature</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_martial_arts" title="Japanese martial arts">Martial arts</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Media_of_Japan" title="Media of Japan">Media</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Music_of_Japan" title="Music of Japan">Music</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_mythology" title="Japanese mythology">Mythology</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Names</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Onsen" title="Onsen">Onsen</a> / <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sent%C5%8D" title="Sentō">Sentō</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sport_in_Japan" title="Sport in Japan">Sport</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony" title="Japanese tea ceremony">Tea ceremony</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Television_in_Japan" title="Television in Japan">Television</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Theatre_of_Japan" title="Theatre of Japan">Theatre</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Flag_of_Japan.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Japan.svg" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/16px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="11" class="noviewer" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/24px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/32px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Portal:Japan" title="Portal:Japan">Japan portal</a></li>
<li><img alt="Category" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg/16px-Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Category" width="16" height="14" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg/24px-Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg/32px-Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="36" data-file-height="31" /> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Japan" title="Category:Japan">Category</a></li>
<li><img alt="Outline" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Global_thinking.svg/10px-Global_thinking.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Outline" width="10" height="16" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Global_thinking.svg/15px-Global_thinking.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Global_thinking.svg/21px-Global_thinking.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="130" data-file-height="200" /> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Outline_of_Japan" title="Outline of Japan">Outline</a></li></ul>
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