Saturday, July 15, 2006
The Yayoi Period
About the third century from about the fourth century B.C. is called Yayoi period.　Quantities of people came over to northern Kyushu Japan from the Chinese and the Korean Peninsula. They introduced rice farming and the tool of the metal. Then, rice farming began in earnest in Japan. Efficiency improved by the iron tool greatly. Then, harvests increased. This meaning is very big. Population increased by securing food steadily. Then, the scale of the village grew big. The difference in rich and poor was formed by the accumulation of the agricultural produce becoming possible.Then, it proceeded to the difference in social position. The Yayoi Period was the age when hierarchical society (earlier socity) was formed.
I have one doubt. Why did they come over to Japan? They had the tool of the iron which was the latest technology. They might have thought about Japan with the remote place and uncivilized tribes were. Japan might not have been attractive for them. There is one opinion. It is said that they were political refugee. It was desperate, and they came over to Japan.They avoided a collision with the Jomon-jin who is a native people. Then, they chose the method of the coexistence and the fusion. I think this thought to be right. Many people came over to Japan after that until about the seventh century. In the beginning, they might have unavoidably come over to japan as a refugee. China and Korea intended to be the homes which couldn't be forgotten for them. Then, it might have been the ground of admiration. They might have hoped to come back to home strongly. They harmonized with the Jomon-jin, and lived in Japan. Then, they might have told a descendant. As for China and the Korea, as for being a wonderful country, and as for civilization. It was decided that the Korean Peninsula and Japan have very good connection. I think that it is because there was their strong homesickness.
