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영어 위키_야요이 시대
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Yayoi period : The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai) started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.[1]
Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.[2] The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 3rd centuries BC.[1][3]
The period is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era in the late 19th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new Yayoi pottery styles, improved carpentry and architecture, and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in paddy fields.[4] 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 via Korea to Japan in this period.[5]
The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period 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 (Yayoi people) from the Korean Peninsula to Japan overwhelmed and mixed with the native predominantly hunter-gatherer population (Jōmon).
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야요이 시대: 야요이 시대(弥生時代, Yayoi jidai)는 일본에서 신석기 시대 후반에 시작하여 청동기 시대를 거쳐 마지막에는 철기 시대로 넘어갔다.
1980년대부터 학자들은 조몬 시대에서 야요이 시대로의 전환으로 분류되었던 시기를 초기 야요이로 재분류해야 한다고 주장했다. 이 전환기가 시작된 시기에 대한 추정은 기원전 10세기부터 3세기에 이르기까지 다양하다.
이 시대는 19세기 후반에 도쿄의 야요이 지역에서 처음으로 그 시대의 유물과 특징을 발굴한 고고학자들에 의해 이름이 붙여졌다. 야요이 시대의 특징적인 특징으로는 새로운 야요이 도자기 양식의 등장, 목공 및 건축 기술의 향상, 그리고 논에서의 집약적인 벼농사의 시작이 있다. 계층적인 사회 계급 구조가 이 시대에 형성되었으며, 그 기원은 중국에 있다. 청동 및 철을 사용한 금속 가공 기술도 이 시대에 중국을 거쳐 한반도를 통해 일본으로 도입되었다.
야요이 시대는 조몬 시대에 이어졌으며, 야요이 문화는 남부 큐슈에서 북부 혼슈에 이르는 지리적 지역에서 번성했다. 고고학적 증거는 이 시기에 한반도에서 농부(야요이 사람들)가 일본으로 유입되어 주로 사냥과 채집을 하는 원주민(조몬) 인구와 섞이고 압도했다는 것을 뒷받침한다.
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Features : The Yayoi period is, generally, accepted to date from circa 300 BC to 300 AD.[6][7][8][9][10] However, although highly controversial, radiocarbon evidence, from organic samples attached to pottery shards, may suggest a date up to 500 years earlier, between ca. 1000 BC and 800 BC.[1] During this period, Japan largely transitioned to a more settled, agricultural society, adopting methods of farming and crop production that were introduced to the country (initially in the Kyūshū region) from Korea.[11][12][13]
The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi Period is found on northern Kyūshū,[14] though that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.[15] The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in Tokyo, where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.[13] Yayoi pottery was simply decorated and produced, using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.[16] Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells (dōtaku), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people 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.[17] Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.[18] That was made possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice agriculture from the Yangtze estuary in southern China via the Ryukyu Islands or Korean Peninsula.[10][19] 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]
Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.[20] The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more deep-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 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) taller, with shallow-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 are of the Yayoi type with some having small Jomon admixture,[21] resembling those of modern-day Japanese.[22]
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특징: 야요이 시대는 일반적으로 기원전 300년에서 기원후 300년 사이로 인정된다. 그러나 매우 논란이 많지만, 도자기 파편에 붙은 유기물 샘플에서 얻은 방사성 탄소 증거는 기원전 1000년에서 800년 사이, 즉 500년 더 이른 날짜를 제안할 수도 있다. 이 기간 동안 일본은 더 정착된 농업 사회로 대체로 전환했으며, 농사와 작물 생산 방법은 한국을 통해 (최초로 큐슈 지역에서) 일본에 도입되었다.
야요이 시대의 가장 초기 고고학적 증거는 북부 큐슈에서 발견되었으나, 이것은 여전히 논쟁의 대상이다. 야요이 문화는 빠르게 혼슈 본섬으로 퍼져 조몬 문화와 혼합되었다. 야요이라는 이름은 도쿄의 한 장소에서 처음 발견된 야요이 시대의 도자기에서 따온 것이다. 야요이 도자기는 간단하게 장식되고 만들어졌으며, 조몬 도자기에서 사용되었던 같은 코일링 기법을 사용했다. 야요이 공예 전문가들은 청동 제사용 종(도타쿠), 거울, 무기 등을 만들었다. 기원후 1세기에 이르러 야요이 사람들은 철 농기구와 무기를 사용하기 시작했다.
야요이 인구가 증가함에 따라 사회는 더 계층화되고 복잡해졌다. 그들은 직물을 짜고 영구적인 농촌 마을에 살며 목재와 돌로 건물을 지었다. 그들은 또한 토지 소유와 곡물 저장을 통해 부를 축적했다. 이러한 요인들은 뚜렷한 사회 계급의 발전을 촉진했다. 당시 중국의 기록에 따르면, 그들은 사회적 지위의 차이를 나타내는 문신과 신체 표시를 가지고 있었다고 한다. 큐슈의 일부 지역에서 야요이 족장들은 청동과 기타 명품들의 무역을 후원하고 정치적으로 조작한 것으로 보인다. 이는 남중국 양쯔강 하구에서 유입된 관개 논농사를 통해 가능했다. 논농사는 일본에서 정착적인 농업 사회의 발전과 성장을 이끌었다. 일본의 지역적인 정치적 및 사회적 발전은 계층화된 사회 내에서 중앙 권력의 활동보다 더 중요했다.
조몬과 야요이 골격 사이의 직접적인 비교는 두 민족이 뚜렷하게 구별됨을 보여준다. 조몬인들은 일반적으로 키가 작고 팔과 다리가 상대적으로 길며, 눈이 깊숙이 박혀 있고 얼굴이 짧고 넓으며, 얼굴의 윤곽이 매우 두드러졌다. 그들은 또한 눈썹뼈, 코, 코 다리가 두드러지게 솟아 있었다. 반면 야요이 사람들은 평균적으로 2.5-5cm 더 컸으며, 눈이 얕게 박혀 있고 얼굴이 높고 좁으며 눈썹뼈와 코가 평평했다. 고분 시대까지, 일본에서 발굴된 거의 모든 골격은 아이누를 제외하고는 야요이 타입이었으며, 일부는 작은 조몬 혼합을 가지고 있었고, 현대 일본인과 유사하다.
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Origin of the Yayoi people
Main article: Yayoi people
See also: Genetic history of East Asians : 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 obsidian.[23] During the Yayoi period, cultural features from Korea and China arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.[24] This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.[25]
Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, 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 and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.[26][27] Further links to the Korean Peninsula have been discovered, and several researchers have reported discoveries/evidence that strongly link the Yayoi culture to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. 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".[28] 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.[29] 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.[30] 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.[29]
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 or proto-Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula.[31][32] These Peninsular Japonic languages, now extinct, were eventually replaced by Koreanic languages.[33] Similarly Whitman suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they (the Yayoi) were present on the Korean peninsula during the Mumun pottery period. According to him and several other researchers, Japonic/proto-Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 BC[34][35] and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by Yayoi wet-rice farmers at some time between 700 and 300 BC.[36][37] Whitman and Miyamoto associate Japonic as the language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi cultures.[38][35] Several linguists believe that speakers of Koreanic/proto-Koreanic arrived in the Korean Peninsula at some time after the Japonic/proto-Japonic speakers and coexisted with these peoples (i.e. the descendants of both the Mumun and Yayoi cultures) and possibly assimilated them. Both Koreanic and Japonic had prolonged influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.[39][40][41]
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야요이 사람들의 기원
주요 문서: 야요이 사람들
참고: 동아시아인의 유전적 역사: 야요이 문화와 야요이 사람들의 기원은 오랫동안 논쟁의 대상이었다. 가장 초기의 고고학적 유적지는 큐슈 북부의 이타즈케 또는 나바타이다. 이 해안 지역의 어업 공동체와 한국 남부 해안 간의 접촉은 조몬 시대부터 시작되었으며, 낚시용 바늘과 흑요석과 같은 무역품의 교환을 통해 입증되었다. 야요이 시대 동안 한국과 중국의 문화적 특징이 이 지역에 수세기에 걸쳐 다양한 시기에 도착하여 후에 남쪽과 동쪽으로 퍼져 나갔다. 이것은 이주민들과 토착 인구, 그리고 새로운 문화적 영향과 기존 관행 간의 혼합 기간이었다.
중국의 영향은 청동 및 구리 무기, 도쿄, 도타쿠, 그리고 관개 논농사에서 명백하게 나타났다. 야요이 문화의 세 가지 주요 상징은 청동 거울, 청동 검, 그리고 왕실 인장석이다.
1996년부터 1999년까지, 일본 국립 자연과학 박물관의 연구원인 사토시 야마구치가 이끄는 팀은 일본 야마구치현과 후쿠오카현에서 발견된 야요이 유해와 중국 장쑤성 연안 지역의 유해를 비교하고 야요이와 장쑤 유해 사이에 많은 유사점을 발견했다. 한반도와의 추가적인 연결 고리가 발견되었으며, 여러 연구자들이 한반도 남부와 야요이 문화 간의 강력한 연관성을 보여주는 발견/증거를 보고했다. 마크 J. 허드슨은 "경계가 있는 논, 새로운 종류의 연마된 돌 공구, 나무 농기구, 철 공구, 직조 기술, 세라믹 저장 항아리, 도자기 제작에서의 점토 코일 외부 결합, 해자가 있는 정착지, 가축화된 돼지, 턱뼈 의식" 등을 포함한 고고학적 증거를 인용했다. 한반도에서의 이주민 유입은 야요이 문화가 큐슈 북해안에서 시작되었기 때문에 힘을 얻는다. 여기서 일본은 한국과 가장 가깝다. 야요이 도자기, 매장 무덤, 식품 보존은 한국 남부의 도자기와 매우 유사하다고 밝혀졌다. 그러나 일부 학자들은 조몬 시대에서 야요이 시대 사이에 약 400만 명의 급격한 인구 증가를 단순히 이주로만 설명할 수 없다고 주장한다. 그들은 이 증가를 주로 섬에서의 사냥-채집 생활에서 농업 식단으로의 전환, 특히 쌀의 도입으로 기인한 것으로 보고 있다. 쌀 재배와 그에 따른 신성화는 느리고 점진적인 인구 증가를 가능하게 했을 가능성이 크다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 대륙에서 일본으로 이주한 농부들이 원주민 사냥꾼-채집인 인구를 흡수하거나 압도했다는 생각을 뒷받침하는 고고학적 증거가 있다.
야요이 도자기의 일부는 분명히 조몬 도자기의 영향을 보여준다. 또한 야요이 사람들은 조몬인과 같은 유형의 구덩이나 원형 주거지에서 살았다. 사냥을 위한 돌로 만든 공구, 낚시를 위한 뼈 공구, 팔찌 제작을 위한 조개, 그리고 그릇과 액세서리를 위한 옻칠 장식과 같은 공통점의 다른 예들도 있다.
여러 언어학자들에 따르면, 일본어 또는 원일본어는 한반도 남부 대부분 지역에 존재했다. 이제는 멸종된 이 반도 일본어 언어들은 결국 한국어 언어들에 의해 대체되었다. 마찬가지로 화이트먼은 야요이인들이 원한국인들과 관련이 없으며, 그들(야요이인들)이 한반도에서 무문 도
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기 시대 동안 존재했다고 제안한다. 그에 따르면, 그리고 다른 여러 연구자들에 따르면, 일본어/원일본어는 기원전 1500년경 한반도에 도착했으며, 기원전 700년에서 300년 사이에 야요이 논농사 농부들에 의해 일본 열도로 옮겨졌다. 화이트먼과 미야모토는 일본어가 무문 문화와 야요이 문화와 관련이 있다고 연결 지었다. 여러 언어학자들은 한국어/원한국어 사용자들이 일본어/원일본어 사용자들 이후 어느 시점에 한반도에 도착하여 이들(즉, 무문 및 야요이 문화의 후손)과 공존하며 아마도 그들을 동화했다고 믿는다. 한국어와 일본어 모두 서로에게 오랜 영향을 미쳤으며, 나중에 창시자 효과가 양 언어 가족의 내부 다양성을 줄였다.
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Languages
Main article: Classification of the Japonic languages
Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the Japonic language family was introduced to and spread through the archipelago during the Yayoi period. Emergence of Wo in Chinese history texts The earliest written records about people in Japan are from Chinese sources from this period. Wo, the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the Na state of Wo received a golden seal from the Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han dynasty. This event was recorded in the Book of the Later Han compiled by Fan Ye in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.[42] 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.[43]
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[44] discovered in Yoshinogari site are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the 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 shrines today),[45] and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterised by violent struggles.[citation needed] Yamataikoku The Wei Zhi (Chinese: 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 major civil war. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court of the Kingdom of Wei.[46] When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Taibo of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.
For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, Yoshinogari in Saga Prefecture and Makimuku in Nara Prefecture have been suggested.[47] Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.[48][49] Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko.[50] Its relation to the origin of the Yamato polity in the following Kofun period is also under debate.
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주요 문서: 일본어 계통 분류
대부분의 언어학자들과 고고학자들은 일본어 계열이 야요이 시대 동안 열도에 도입되어 퍼져 나갔다는 데 동의한다. 중국 역사 텍스트에서 우(倭)의 등장: 일본에 관한 가장 이른 기록은 이 시기 중국의 출처에서 나온다. 우, 일본을 위한 초기 중국 이름의 발음은 기원후 57년에 언급되었으며, 우의 나(那) 국은 후한 왕조의 광무제로부터 황금 인장을 받았다. 이 사건은 5세기에 범예에 의해 편찬된 후한서에 기록되어 있다. 인장 자체는 18세기에 큐슈 북부에서 발견되었다. 우는 또한 257년 3세기 학자 천수에 의해 편찬된 삼국지의 일부인 위지에서 언급되었다.
초기 중국 역사가들은 우를 수백 개의 분산된 부족 공동체의 땅으로 묘사했으며, 8세기 작품인 일본서기에서 제시된 700년 전통의 통일된 땅으로 묘사한 것과는 달랐다. 고고학적 증거 또한 이 시기에 정착지나 소국가들 간의 빈번한 충돌이 발생했음을 시사한다. 많은 발굴된 정착지들은 해자가 있거나 언덕 꼭대기에 위치했다. 요시노가리 유적지에서 발견된 무두 인간 해골은 이 시기의 전형적인 유적으로 간주된다. 내해 연안 지역에서는 장례용품 중에 돌 화살촉이 자주 발견된다.
3세기 중국 출처는 와(倭) 사람들이 생선, 채소, 대나무와 나무 쟁반에 담긴 쌀을 먹고, 숭배에서 박수를 치는 것(오늘날 신도 신사에서도 여전히 행해지는)을 보고하며, 토양 무덤을 만들었다. 그들은 또한 종속국-주국 관계를 유지하고, 세금을 징수하며, 지방 곡물 창고와 시장을 가졌고, 애도를 관찰했다. 사회는 폭력적인 투쟁으로 특징 지어졌다.
야마타이국: 삼국지의 일부인 위지(魏志)는 3세기에 처음으로 야마타이국과 히미코 여왕을 언급한다. 기록에 따르면, 히미코는 큰 내전 후에 와의 왕좌에 올라 영적 지도자로서 활동했다. 그녀의 남동생이 국가의 일, 포함하여 위 왕국의 중국 법정과의 외교 관계를 담당했다. 위 사절단에게 그들의 기원에 대해 물었을 때, 와 사람들은 중국의 양쯔강 삼각주 지역의 우 왕국의 역사적 인물인 타이보의 후손이라고 주장했다.
많은 년 동안, 야마타이국의 위치와 히미코 여왕의 정체는 연구의 대상이었다. 사가 현의 요시노가리와 나라 현의 마키무쿠의 두 가능한 위치가 제안되었다. 최근 마키무쿠에서의 고고학적 연구는 야마타이국이 이 지역에 위치했을 가능성을 시사한다. 일부 학자들은 마키무쿠의 하시하카 고분이 히미코의 무덤일 수 있다고 가정한다. 이것이 이어지는 고분 시대의 야마토 정치 체제의 기원과의 관계도 논의 중이다.
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The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai) started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.[1]
Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.[2] The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 3rd centuries BC.[1][3]
The period is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era in the late 19th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new Yayoi pottery styles, improved carpentry and architecture, and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in paddy fields.[4] 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 via Korea to Japan in this period.[5]
The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period 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 (Yayoi people) from the Korean Peninsula to Japan overwhelmed and mixed with the native predominantly hunter-gatherer population (Jōmon).
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The Yayoi period is, generally, accepted to date from circa 300 BC to 300 AD.[6][7][8][9][10] However, although highly controversial, radiocarbon evidence, from organic samples attached to pottery shards, may suggest a date up to 500 years earlier, between ca. 1000 BC and 800 BC.[1] During this period, Japan largely transitioned to a more settled, agricultural society, adopting methods of farming and crop production that were introduced to the country (initially in the Kyūshū region) from Korea.[11][12][13]
The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi Period is found on northern Kyūshū,[14] though that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.[15] The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in Tokyo, where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.[13] Yayoi pottery was simply decorated and produced, using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.[16] Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells (dōtaku), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people 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.[17] Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.[18] That was made possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice agriculture from the Yangtze estuary in southern China via the Ryukyu Islands or Korean Peninsula.[10][19] 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]
Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.[20] The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more deep-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 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) taller, with shallow-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 are of the Yayoi type with some having small Jomon admixture,[21] resembling those of modern-day Japanese.[22]
History[edit]
Origin of the Yayoi people[edit]

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 obsidian.[23] During the Yayoi period, cultural features from Korea and China arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.[24] This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.[25]
Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, 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 and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.[26][27]

Further links to the Korean Peninsula have been discovered, and several researchers have reported discoveries/evidence that strongly link the Yayoi culture to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. 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".[28] 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.[29]

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.[30] 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.[29]
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 or proto-Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula.[31][32] These Peninsular Japonic languages, now extinct, were eventually replaced by Koreanic languages.[33] Similarly Whitman suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they (the Yayoi) were present on the Korean peninsula during the Mumun pottery period. According to him and several other researchers, Japonic/proto-Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 BC[34][35] and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by Yayoi wet-rice farmers at some time between 700 and 300 BC.[36][37] Whitman and Miyamoto associate Japonic as the language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi cultures.[38][35] Several linguists believe that speakers of Koreanic/proto-Koreanic arrived in the Korean Peninsula at some time after the Japonic/proto-Japonic speakers and coexisted with these peoples (i.e. the descendants of both the Mumun and Yayoi cultures) and possibly assimilated them. Both Koreanic and Japonic had prolonged influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.[39][40][41]
Languages[edit]
Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the Japonic language family was introduced to and spread through the archipelago during the Yayoi period.
Emergence of Wo in Chinese history texts[edit]

The earliest written records about people in Japan are from Chinese sources from this period. Wo, the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the Na state of Wo received a golden seal from the Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han dynasty. This event was recorded in the Book of the Later Han compiled by Fan Ye in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.[42] 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.[43]
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[44] discovered in Yoshinogari site are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the 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 shrines today),[45] and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterised by violent struggles.[citation needed]
Yamataikoku[edit]

The Wei Zhi (Chinese: 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 major civil war. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court of the Kingdom of Wei.[46] When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Taibo of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.
For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, Yoshinogari in Saga Prefecture and Makimuku in Nara Prefecture have been suggested.[47] Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.[48][49] Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko.[50] Its relation to the origin of the Yamato polity in the following Kofun period is also under debate.
See also[edit]
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- ^ Habu 2004, p. 258.
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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.
- ^ Mizoguchi (2013), p. 119.
- ^ Janhunen, Juha (2010). "Reconstructing the Language Map of Prehistorical Northeast Asia". Studia Orientalia (108).
... there are strong indications that the neighbouring Baekje state (in the southwest) was predominantly Japonic-speaking until it was linguistically Koreanized.
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- Beckwith, Christopher I. (2004), Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives, Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-13949-7.
- Habu, Junko (2004), Ancient Jomon of Japan, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Press, ISBN 978-0-521-77670-7.
- Miyamoto, Kazuo (2016), "Archaeological Explanation for the Diffusion Theory of the Japonic and Koreanic Language" (PDF), Japanese Journal of Archeology, 4 (1): 53–75.
- Serafim, Leon A. (2008), "The uses of Ryukyuan in understanding Japanese language history", in Frellesvig, Bjarke; Whitman, John (eds.), Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, John Benjamins, pp. 79–99, ISBN 978-90-272-4809-1.
- Unger, J. Marshall (2009), The role of contact in the origins of the Japanese and Korean languages, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-3279-7.
- Vovin, Alexander (2013), "From Koguryo to Tamna: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean", Korean Linguistics, 15 (2): 222–240, doi:10.1075/kl.15.2.03vov.
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Further reading[edit]
- Schirokauer, Conrad (2013). A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
- Silberman, Neil Asher (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links[edit]
- Yayoi Culture, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Yayoi period Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Japanese History Online (under construction) Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
- An article by Richard Hooker on the Yayoi and the Jōmon.
- Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
- Article "Japanese Roots Surprisingly Shallow" from Japan Times
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The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai) started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.[1]
Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.[2] The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 3rd centuries BC.[1][3]
The period is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era in the late 19th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new Yayoi pottery styles, improved carpentry and architecture, and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in paddy fields.[4] 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 via Korea to Japan in this period.[5]
The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period 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 (Yayoi people) from the Korean Peninsula to Japan overwhelmed and mixed with the native predominantly hunter-gatherer population (Jōmon).
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Yoshinogari site reconstruction
Reconstructed Yayoi-style dwellings at Yoshinogari
The Yayoi period is, generally, accepted to date from circa 300 BC to 300 AD.[6][7][8][9][10] However, although highly controversial, radiocarbon evidence, from organic samples attached to pottery shards, may suggest a date up to 500 years earlier, between ca. 1000 BC and 800 BC.[1] During this period, Japan largely transitioned to a more settled, agricultural society, adopting methods of farming and crop production that were introduced to the country (initially in the Kyūshū region) from Korea.[11][12][13]
The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi Period is found on northern Kyūshū,[14] though that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū, mixing with native Jōmon culture.[15] The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in Tokyo, where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found.[13] Yayoi pottery was simply decorated and produced, using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery.[16] Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells (dōtaku), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people 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.[17] Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.[18] That was made possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice agriculture from the Yangtze estuary in southern China via the Ryukyu Islands or Korean Peninsula.[10][19] 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]
Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.[20] The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more deep-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 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) taller, with shallow-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 are of the Yayoi type with some having small Jomon admixture,[21] resembling those of modern-day Japanese.[22]
History
Origin of the Yayoi people
Main article: Yayoi people
See also: Genetic history of East Asians
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 obsidian.[23] During the Yayoi period, cultural features from Korea and China arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east.[24] This was a period of mixture between immigrants and the indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices.[25]
Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, 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 and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.[26][27]
A Yayoi period dōtaku bell, 3rd century AD
Further links to the Korean Peninsula have been discovered, and several researchers have reported discoveries/evidence that strongly link the Yayoi culture to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. 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".[28] 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.[29]
Shinju-kyo 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.[30] 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.[29]
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 or proto-Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula.[31][32] These Peninsular Japonic languages, now extinct, were eventually replaced by Koreanic languages.[33] Similarly Whitman suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they (the Yayoi) were present on the Korean peninsula during the Mumun pottery period. According to him and several other researchers, Japonic/proto-Japonic arrived in the Korean peninsula around 1500 BC[34][35] and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by Yayoi wet-rice farmers at some time between 700 and 300 BC.[36][37] Whitman and Miyamoto associate Japonic as the language family associated with both Mumun and Yayoi cultures.[38][35] Several linguists believe that speakers of Koreanic/proto-Koreanic arrived in the Korean Peninsula at some time after the Japonic/proto-Japonic speakers and coexisted with these peoples (i.e. the descendants of both the Mumun and Yayoi cultures) and possibly assimilated them. Both Koreanic and Japonic had prolonged influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.[39][40][41]
Languages
Main article: Classification of the Japonic languages
Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the Japonic language family was introduced to and spread through the archipelago during the Yayoi period.
Emergence of Wo in Chinese history texts
The golden seal said to have been granted to the "King of Na in 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 Chinese sources from this period. Wo, the pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the Na state of Wo received a golden seal from the Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han dynasty. This event was recorded in the Book of the Later Han compiled by Fan Ye in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century.[42] 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.[43]
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[44] discovered in Yoshinogari site are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the 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 shrines today),[45] and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society was characterised by violent struggles.[citation needed]
Yamataikoku
Hashihaka kofun, Sakurai, Nara
The Wei Zhi (Chinese: 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 major civil war. Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with the Chinese court of the Kingdom of Wei.[46] When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Taibo of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.
For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, Yoshinogari in Saga Prefecture and Makimuku in Nara Prefecture have been suggested.[47] Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku was located in the area.[48][49] Some scholars assume that the Hashihaka kofun in Makimuku was the tomb of Himiko.[50] Its relation to the origin of the Yamato polity in the following Kofun period is also under debate.
See also
Ancient Japan portal
Japanese era name
Ainu people
Emishi people
Yayoi people
Wa (Japan)
Zenpokoenfun
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Schirokauer, Conrad (2013). A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Silberman, Neil Asher (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press.
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