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*''Japanese'': 弥生時代 ''(Yayoi jidai)''

*''Japanese'': 弥生時代 ''(Yayoi jidai)''

The Yayoi Period is marked by the introduction of wet [[rice cultivation]] and certain other technologies, innovations in societal organization, and behavior, which accompanied an influx of new settlers into the [[Japanese archipelago]]. The period takes its name from a neighborhood in [[Tokyo]] where ceramic artifacts from this period were first discovered.

The Yayoi Period is marked by the introduction of wet [[rice cultivation]] and certain other technologies, innovations in societal organization, and behavior, which accompanied an influx of new settlers into the [[Japanese archipelago]]. The period takes its name from a neighborhood in [[Tokyo]] where ceramic artifacts from this period were first discovered in [[1884]] by [[Tsuboi Shogoro|Tsuboi Shôgorô]], Shirai Mitsutarô, and Akizaka Shôzô of the [[University of Tokyo]]. A museum and historical marker stand on the site today, just beyond the rear walls/gates of the university's main campus in Hongô.<ref>Plaque at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref>

While theories surrounding horseriders from the Asian mainland, arriving via Korea, once were dominant, recent scholarship has cast doubt upon that argument. Debate continues as to whether the shift from Jômon to Yayoi was chiefly the result of mass migrations from the mainland, or of a looser form of cultural interactions and exchanges, though almost assuredly it was some combination of the two which occurred. Those who did migrate into the islands from the continent may have done so as a result of pressures from Chinese military expansion and conflict between China and the peoples to China's northeast. They came to Japan in oared boats, and continued to spread across the archipelago by boat, settling many parts of Kyushu and western Japan by around 200 BCE, reaching as far east as the area around what is today the city of [[Nagoya]]. The spread of Yayoi culture and people northward from there chiefly took place overland, and moved at a considerably slower pace, with Jômon culture remaining dominant in much of [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] as late as the 1000s-1200s.<ref name=craig46>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 4-6.</ref>

While theories surrounding horseriders from the Asian mainland, arriving via Korea, once were dominant, recent scholarship has cast doubt upon that argument. Debate continues as to whether the shift from Jômon to Yayoi was chiefly the result of mass migrations from the mainland, or of a looser form of cultural interactions and exchanges, though almost assuredly it was some combination of the two which occurred. Those who did migrate into the islands from the continent may have done so as a result of pressures from Chinese military expansion and conflict between China and the peoples to China's northeast. They came to Japan in oared boats, and continued to spread across the archipelago by boat, settling many parts of Kyushu and western Japan by around 200 BCE, reaching as far east as the area around what is today the city of [[Nagoya]]. The spread of Yayoi culture and people northward from there chiefly took place overland, and moved at a considerably slower pace, with Jômon culture remaining dominant in much of [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] as late as the 1000s-1200s.<ref name=craig46>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 4-6.</ref>