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The Wajin (also known as Wa or Wō) or Yamato were the names early China used to refer to an ethnic group living in Japan around the time of the Three Kingdoms period.Ancient and medieval East Asian scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato with one and the same Chinese character 倭, which translated to "dwarf", until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with 和 ...
The statistics also do not take into account minority groups who are Japanese citizens such as the Ainu (an aboriginal people primarily living in Hokkaido), the Ryukyuans (from the Ryukyu Islands south of mainland Japan), naturalized citizens from backgrounds including but not limited to Korean and Chinese, and citizen descendants of immigrants ...
Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan; Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province; Yamato Kingship, the government of the Yamato period; Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period; Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind"
The Wei chih account of the Wo people is chiefly concerned with a kingdom which it calls Yeh-ma-t'ai, Middle Chinese i̯a-ma-t'ḁ̂i, which inevitably seems to be a transcription of some early linguistic form allied with the word Yamato. The phonology of this identification raises problems which after generations of study have yet to be settled.
The Yamato period (大和時代, Yamato-jidai) is the period of Japanese history when the Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province. While conventionally assigned to the period 250–710, including both the Kofun period ( c. 250 –538) and the Asuka period (538–710), the actual start of Yamato rule ...
On the other hand, the Yamato Kingship strengthened its internal administration by gradually introducing things Chinese such as calendars from the peninsula, as well as affiliating and organizing its powerful clans and people. Within the Yamato kingship, there was a series of conflicts over the leadership of the central powerful clans in the ...
The majority of scholars believe that they were related to the Ainu people, not necessarily identical but a distinct ethnicity. [1] [2] The Emishi that inhabited Northern Honshu consisted likely of several tribes, which included pre-Ainu people, non-Yamato Japanese, and admixed people, who united and resisted the expansion of the Yamato Empire.
Yamato Province (大和国, Yamato no Kuni) was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. [1] It was also called Washū ( 和州 ) . Yamato consists of two characters, 大 "great", and 和 " Wa ".