Silk clothing from burial, Yayoi period (300BCE-250). At Yokohama Silk Museum, Japan.

Silk clothes from burial, Yayoi period (300BCE-250). At the Yokohama Silk Museum, Japan.

Queen Himiko, also known as Pimiko or Pimiku (183? - 248 CE), was a 3rd-century CE ruler of the territory in ancient Japan known as Hsieh-ma-t'ai or Yamatai, later to be known as Yamato. Considered...

The Fertile Crescent is the name given to the arc-shaped area of land that stretched across the Middle East from the northern end of the Gulf in the East to the Nile Valley in the West.

Before the Tokugawa Shogunate, before the feudal era, before the classical Heian period where Japanese culture blossomed, before Buddhism was known in Japan, there was an ancient Japan, a time when true Japanese-ness came into being. An agricultural people from mainland Asia, the Yamato, settled in Japan and began rapidly conquering the island from its aborigines. The mix of new and old cultures would become the ur-Japanese. This image depicts some of the first recognizably Japanese people.

1. Ancient Japan. The Elusive Image of Armor (1) - Late Yayoi period (2nd-3rd Century)

http://mep.zverina.cz - picture: 300 B.C.-300 Yayoi period, Brief History of Japan

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