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The settlements of these new arrivals seem to have coexisted with those of the Jōmon and Yayoi for around a thousand years. Reconstruction of a Yayoi period house in Kyushu. Outside Hokkaido, the Final Jōmon is succeeded by a new farming culture, the Yayoi (c. 300 BC – AD 300), named after an archaeological site near Tokyo. [7]
Toraijin (Japanese: 渡来人, とらいじん) refers to the people who came to Japan from mainland Asia in ancient times, as well as their descendants. [1] [2] They arrived in Japan as early as the Jōmon or Yayoi period, and their arrival became more significant from the end of the 4th century to the late 7th century.
The Kofun period (古墳時代, Kofun jidai) is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period .
The Yayoi people refers specifically to the mixed descendants of Jomon hunter-gatherers with mainland Asian migrants, which adopted (rice) agriculture and other continental material culture. [8] There are several hypotheses about the geographic origin of the mainland Asian migrants: immigrants from the Southern or Central Korean Peninsula [9 ...
Reconstructed model of a late 4th century zenpō-kōen-fun (Kaichi Kofun), Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture The kofun tumuli have assumed various shapes throughout history. The most common type of kofun is known as a zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above.
The Zoku-Jōmon period (続縄文時代) (c. 340 BC–700 AD), [1] also referred to as the Epi-Jōmon period, [2] is the time in Japanese prehistory that saw the flourishing of the Zoku-Jōmon culture, [3] a continuation of Jōmon culture in northern Tōhoku and Hokkaidō that corresponds with the Yayoi period and Kofun period elsewhere. [3]
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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 ...