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Horse chariot – Detail of a bronze mirror c. 5th–6th century excavated Eta-Funayama Tumulus in Japan. Horses in East Asian warfare are inextricably linked with the strategic and tactical evolution of armed conflict throughout the course of East Asian military history.
Children's instructive toy chariot in Chinese display at Expo 2005 in Japan. The invention of the south-pointing chariot also made its way to Japan by the 7th century. The Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan) of 720 described the earlier Chinese Buddhist monks Zhi Yu and Zhi You constructing several south-pointing Chariots for Emperor Tenji of Japan in 658. [9]
At one point Isaka, Honma's friend and housekeeper, talks about a flaming wagon that takes sinners to hell, citing Japanese Buddhist mythology. This is the kasha (Japanese: 火車, lit. ' fire chariot ') of the original Japanese title. The significance is that the real Shoko had gone through hell with her credit card bankruptcy, but then the ...
In antiquity heavy chariots with four mounted warriors with four barded horses would be developed. This chariot was a heavy construction and would sometimes be equipped with scythes on wheels. [4] The momentum of this heavy chariot was sufficient to break through enemy formations acting as heavy shock-troops. However engaging in melee was ...
During Japan's Middle Ages and early modern era, Kasha were depicted as a fiery chariot who took the dead away to hell, and were depicted as such in Buddhist writings, such as rokudo-e. [4] Kasha also appeared in Buddhist paintings of the era, notably jigoku-zōshi (Buddhist ‘ hellscapes ’, paintings depicting the horrors of hell), where ...
The Shoku Nihongi (続日本紀) is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the Six National Histories, coming directly after the Nihon Shoki and followed by Nihon Kōki.
He was also self-consciously focused on the application of Buddhist principles in the analysis of Japanese history. [5] However, Jien could never completely divorce his position as a son and brother of Fujiwara kogyū [ clarification needed ] officials from his position as a priest who studied and practiced Buddhism.
Kikkuli was the Hurrian "master horse trainer [assussanni] of the land of Mitanni" (LÚ A-AŠ-ŠU-UŠ-ŠA-AN-NI ŠA KUR URU MI-IT-TA-AN-NI) and author of a chariot horse training text written primarily in the Hittite language (as well as an Old Indo-Aryan language as seen in numerals and loan-words), dating to the Hittite New Kingdom (around 1400 BCE).