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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...
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    The Yayoi people (弥生人, Yayoi jin) were an ancient ethnicity that immigrated to the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BC–300 AD) and are...
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    phase of the Jōmon period to 300 BC. The Yayoi period started between 500 and 300 BC according to radio-carbon evidence, while Yayoi styled pottery was...
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    Yayoi pottery (弥生土器 Yayoi doki) is earthenware pottery produced during the Yayoi period, an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC...
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    around 38–39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new...
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    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...
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    Magatama (category Yayoi period)
    shape. From the Yayoi period onwards, magatama uniformly feature a bored hole that allowed the jewels to be held on a string. The Yayoi period is marked by...
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    Shinto (section Nara period)
    has been traced back to Japan's Yayoi period (300 BC to 300 AD). Buddhism entered Japan at the end of the Kofun period (300 to 538 AD) and spread rapidly...
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    The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning...
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    became a key example of this. Little is known of the clothing of the Yayoi period. In the 3rd-century Weizhi Worenchuan (魏志倭人伝 (Gishi Wajinden), a section...
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    others, such as tooth ablation, persisted into the Yayoi period. As with the Jomon people, the Yayoi people left behind a distinctive material culture...
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    Osaka (category Populated places with period of establishment missing)
    the Yayoi period, the sediments that were deposited north of the Uemachi peninsula / plateau transformed Kawachi Bay into a lagoon. During the Yayoi period...
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    The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan...
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  • The following is a list of Japanese battles, organised by date. Jimmu's Eastern Expedition (c. 7th century BCE) Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion (c. 1st century...
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    Japanese people was not newcomers in the Yayoi period (300 BCE – 300 CE) but the people in the Jōmon period. However, Kazuro Hanihara announced a new...
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  • often limited to specific ports. In late prehistory, in the Iron Age Yayoi period (300 BCE to 300 CE), Japanese culture showed[clarify] some Korean influence...
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    Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also...
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  • culture in northern Tōhoku and Hokkaidō that corresponds with the Yayoi period and Kofun period elsewhere. Zoku-Jōmon ("continuing cord-marking") in turn gave...
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    The Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, Azuchi–Momoyama jidai) was the final phase of the Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai) in Japanese history from 1568...
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    Inkstone artifacts at archaeological sites dating back to the earlier Yayoi period were also found to contain Chinese characters. Although some characters...
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    bow and arrow. Some human remains were found with arrow wounds. The Yayoi period is the Iron Age era of Japan from 1000 BC to 300 AD. Japan transitioned...
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  • (1674–1818) Colonial period: British Raj (1858 – 1947) Independence (1947 – present) Archaic Japan Jōmon period (10,501 BC – 400 BC) Yayoi period (450 BC – 250...
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    with states on the Asian continent in the 3rd century BCE during the Yayoi period. It reached a pre-modern peak of activity during the 16th century, a...
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    The Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established...
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  • around 800 BC in the Yayoi period (1000 BC – 300 AD). A large number of bronze tsurugi made around 200 B.C. in the Yayoi period were excavated from several...
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    later Jōmon period. The pottery was formed by coiling clay ropes and fired in an open fire. In about the 4th–3rd centuries BC Yayoi period, Yayoi pottery...
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    The Muromachi period or Muromachi era (室町時代, Muromachi jidai), also known as the Ashikaga period or Ashikaga era (足利時代, Ashikaga jidai), is a division...
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  • Civil War of Wa (category Yayoi period)
    Wa (倭国大乱, wakoku tairan) was a period of disturbances and warfare in ancient Japan (Wa) during the late Yayoi period (2nd century AD). It is the oldest...
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    period, there is evidence that these deaths were not inflicted by warfare or violence on a large enough scale to cause these deaths. The Yayoi period...
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    The Nara period (奈良時代, Nara jidai) of the history of Japan covers the years from 710 to 794. Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day...
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