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Kofun period

Index Kofun period

The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538 AD, following the Yayoi period. [1]

147 relations: Achi no omi, Amenohiboko, Asin of Baekje, Asuka period, Ōtomo clan, Ōtomo no Kanamura, Baekje, Bizen Province, Book of Song, Book of Sui, Buddhism, Cao Cao, Cavalry, Chikuzen Province, China, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese astrology, Chinese characters, Chinese culture, Chinese people, Choson Sinbo, Clan, Client state, Concubinage, Culture of Korea, Delmer Brown, Emperor Ōjin, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Kaika, Emperor Kanmu, Emperor Kōgen, Emperor Kōnin, Emperor Keitai, Emperor Nintoku, Emperor of Japan, Emperor Suinin, Emperor Yūryaku, Empress Jingū, Eta Funayama Sword, Finance minister, Five kings of Wa, Fukui Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Gaya confederacy, Gōzoku, Geunchogo of Baekje, Goguryeo, Gosashi tomb, Gwanggaeto Stele, Haniwa, ..., Hata clan, History of Japan, Hogong, Honshu, Horse trainer, Imperial House of Japan, Inariyama Sword, Irrigation, Iwanami Shoten, Izumo Province, Japan, Japanese clans, Japanese people, Jeonji of Baekje, Jinhan confederacy, Kabane, Kai Province, Kami, Kansai region, Kantō region, Katsuragi clan, Kawachi Province, Kibi Province, Kinai, Kingdom of Kibi, Kofun, Kojiki, Koreans, Koshi Province, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kumaso, Kuni no miyatsuko, Kyushu, Liu Song dynasty, Magatama, Mahan confederacy, Material culture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Middle Chinese, Militarism, Ministry of the Treasury, Moat, Mongols, Mononobe clan, Muryeong of Baekje, Nakatomi clan, Nara Prefecture, National Geographic Society, Nihon Shoki, Niigata Prefecture, Nobility, Northern Wei, Okayama Prefecture, Patriarch, Polity, Portraits of Periodical Offering, Qin Shi Huang, Recorded history, Ryukyu Islands, Sakurai, Nara, Samguk sagi, Sericulture, Seto Inland Sea, Shimane Prefecture, Shinju-kyo, Shinsen Shōjiroku, Shoku Nihongi, Silla, Silseong of Silla, Soga clan, Sui dynasty, Susumu Ōno, Sword, Taika Reform, Tajima Province, Takamatsuzuka Tomb, Takamuko no Kuromaro, Takano no Niigasa, Tanegashima, Tang dynasty, Tōhoku region, Tenri University, The Hankyoreh, Three Kingdoms of Korea, Tsushima Strait, Tumulus, Twenty-Four Histories, Wa (Japan), Weaving, Written Chinese, Yakushima, Yamatai, Yamato period, Yamato Province, Yamato Takeru, Yayoi period, Yeongsan River. Expand index (97 more) »

Achi no omi

, was a great-grandson of Emperor Ling of Han who settled in Japan with his son Tsuga no omi.

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Amenohiboko

was a legendary prince of Silla who settled in Japan during the era of Emperor Suinin, around the 3rd or 4th century and was said to have lived in Tajima Province.

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Asin of Baekje

Asin of Baekje (died 405) (r. 392–405) was the seventeenth king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

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Asuka period

The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period.

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Ōtomo clan

was a Japanese family whose power stretched from the Kamakura period through the Sengoku period, spanning over 400 years.

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Ōtomo no Kanamura

Ōtomo no Kanamura (大伴金村) was a Japanese warrior and statesman during the late Kofun period.

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Baekje

Baekje (18 BC – 660 AD) was a kingdom located in southwest Korea.

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Bizen Province

was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of Honshū, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture.

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Book of Song

The Book of Song (Sòng Shū) is a historical text of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties of China.

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Book of Sui

The Book of Sui (Suí Shū) is the official history of the Sui dynasty.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Cao Cao

Cao Cao (– 15 March 220), courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty who rose to great power in the final years of the dynasty.

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Cavalry

Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

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Chikuzen Province

was an old province of Japan in the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyūshū.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), with historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic of China era, is the premier and the most comprehensive academic research organization and national center in the People's Republic of China for study in the fields of philosophy and social sciences, with the obligation of advancing and innovating in the scientific researches of philosophy, social sciences and policies.

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Chinese astrology

Chinese astrology is based on the traditional astronomy and calendars.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.

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Chinese people

Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.

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Choson Sinbo

The Choson Sinbo (Chosun Shinbo), also known by the name of its English edition The People's Korea, is a newspaper based in Japan, published in both Korean and Japanese.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Client state

A client state is a state that is economically, politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state in international affairs.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship in which the couple are not or cannot be married.

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Culture of Korea

The traditional culture of Korea refers to the shared cultural heritage of the Korean Peninsula.

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Delmer Brown

Delmer Myers Brown (November 20, 1909November 9, 2011) was an American academic, historian, author, translator and Japanologist.

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Emperor Ōjin

, also known as Homutawake or, was the 15th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-26.

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Emperor Gaozu of Han

Emperor Gaozu of Han (256 BC – 1 June 195 BC), born Liu Bang (刘邦), was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202 – 195 BC.

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Emperor Kaika

; also known as Wakayamatonekohikooobi no Mikoto; is the ninth emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.

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Emperor Kanmu

was the 50th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-22.

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Emperor Kōgen

, also known as Ooyamatonekohikokunikuru no Mikoto, was the eighth emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-22.

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Emperor Kōnin

was the 49th emperor of Japan,Emperor Kōnin, Tahara no Higashi Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor Keitai

, also known as Keitai-okimi, was the 26th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor Nintoku

was the 16th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.

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Emperor of Japan

The Emperor of Japan is the head of the Imperial Family and the head of state of Japan.

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Emperor Suinin

; also known as Ikumeiribikoisachi no Mikoto; was the 11th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-22.

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Emperor Yūryaku

was the 21st emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.

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Empress Jingū

, occasionally known as, was a Japanese empress who ruled beginning in the year 201.

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Eta Funayama Sword

in Japan is a 5th-century ancient iron sword excavated from the Eta Funayama kofun in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1873.

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Finance minister

A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.

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Five kings of Wa

The five kings of Wa (倭の五王, Wa no go ō) are kings of ancient Japan who sent envoys to China during the 5th century to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims to power by gaining the recognition of the Chinese emperor.

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Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island.

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Fukushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Gaya confederacy

Gaya was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.

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Gōzoku

is a Japanese term used to refer to powerful and wealthy families.

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Geunchogo of Baekje

Geunchogo of Baekje (324–375, r. 346–375) was the 13th king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

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Goguryeo

Goguryeo (37 BCE–668 CE), also called Goryeo was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Manchuria.

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Gosashi tomb

The Gosashi tomb is supposedly the resting place of Empress Jingū, who ruled Japan as a regent.

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Gwanggaeto Stele

The Gwanggaeto Stele is a memorial stele for the tomb of King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo, erected in 414 by his son Jangsu.

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Haniwa

The are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan.

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Hata clan

The was an immigrant clan active in Japan since the Kofun period (250–538), according to the history of Japan laid out in Nihon Shoki.

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History of Japan

The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.

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Hogong

Hogong was a minister of Silla in the age of nation-building.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Horse trainer

A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines.

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Imperial House of Japan

The, also referred to as the Imperial Family and the Yamato Dynasty, comprises those members of the extended family of the reigning Emperor of Japan who undertake official and public duties.

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Inariyama Sword

The iron or was excavated at the Inariyama Kofun in 1968.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Iwanami Shoten

is a Japanese publishing company in Tokyo.

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Izumo Province

was an old province of Japan which today consists of the eastern part of Shimane Prefecture.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese clans

There are ancient-era clan names called or.

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Japanese people

are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of that country.

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Jeonji of Baekje

Jeonji of Baekje (died 420) (r. 405–420) was the eighteenth king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

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Jinhan confederacy

Jinhan was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD in the southern Korean Peninsula, to the east of the Nakdong River valley, Gyeongsang Province.

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Kabane

were titles used with clan name (uji na) in pre-modern Japan to denote rank and political standing of each clan (uji).

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Kai Province

was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Kami

are the spirits or phenomena that are worshipped in the religion of Shinto.

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Kansai region

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Katsuragi clan

The was a Japanese aristocratic kin group (uji) during the Kofun period.

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Kawachi Province

was a province of Japan in the eastern part of modern Osaka Prefecture.

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Kibi Province

was an ancient province or region of Japan, in the same area as Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Kinai

is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country.

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Kingdom of Kibi

was a kingdom of fourth century Western Japan.

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Kofun

are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Japan, constructed between the early 3rd century and the early 7th century AD.

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Kojiki

, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.

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Koreans

Koreans (in South Korean; alternatively in North Korean,; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group originating from and native to Korea and southern and central Manchuria.

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Koshi Province

was an ancient province or region of Japan in what is now the Hokuriku region.

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Kumamoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.

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Kumaso

The were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived in the south of Kyūshū until at least the Nara period.

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Kuni no miyatsuko

, also read as "kokuzō" or "kunitsuko", were officials in ancient Japan at the time of the Yamato court.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Liu Song dynasty

The Song dynasty, better known as the Liu Song dynasty (420–479 CE;; Wade-Giles: Liu Sung), also known as Former Song (前宋) or Southern Song (南宋), was the first of the four Southern Dynasties in China, succeeding the Eastern Jin and followed by the Southern Qi.

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Magatama

are curved, comma-shaped beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately ca.

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Mahan confederacy

Mahan was a loose confederacy of statelets that existed from around the 1st century BC to 5th century AD in the southern Korean peninsula in the Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces.

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Material culture

Material culture is the physical aspect of culture in the objects and architecture that surround people.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.

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Militarism

Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values; examples of modern militarist states include the United States, Russia and Turkey.

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Ministry of the Treasury

The (lit. the department of the great treasury) was a division of the eighth-century Japanese government of the Imperial Court in Kyoto, instituted in the Asuka period and formalized during the Heian period.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Mononobe clan

The was a Japanese clan of the Kofun period, known for its military opposition to the Soga clan.

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Muryeong of Baekje

Muryeong of Baekje (462–523, r. 501–23) was the 25th king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

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Nakatomi clan

was a Japanese aristocratic kin group (uji).

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Nara Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Niigata Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Northern Wei

The Northern Wei or the Northern Wei Empire, also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓跋魏), Later Wei (後魏), or Yuan Wei (元魏), was a dynasty founded by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei, which ruled northern China from 386 to 534 (de jure until 535), during the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

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Okayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.

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Patriarch

The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), and the Church of the East are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes).

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Polity

A polity is any kind of political entity.

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Portraits of Periodical Offering

The Portraits of Periodical Offering was a series of official historical paintings (with illustration on each of the portrait) used in the Chinese dynasties.

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Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (18 February 25910 September 210) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China.

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Recorded history

Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.

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Sakurai, Nara

is a city located in Nara Prefecture, Japan.

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Samguk sagi

Samguk sagi (삼국사기, 三國史記, History of the Three Kingdoms) is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.

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Sericulture

Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.

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Seto Inland Sea

The, also known as Setouchi or often shortened to Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, three of the four main islands of Japan.

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Shimane Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main Honshu island.

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Shinju-kyo

Japanese is an ancient type of round bronze mirror decorated with images of gods and animals from Chinese mythology.

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Shinsen Shōjiroku

is an imperially commissioned Japanese genealogical record.

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Shoku Nihongi

The is an imperially commissioned Japanese history text.

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Silla

Silla (57 BC57 BC according to the Samguk Sagi; however Seth 2010 notes that "these dates are dutifully given in many textbooks and published materials in Korea today, but their basis is in myth; only Goguryeo may be traced back to a time period that is anywhere near its legendary founding." – 935 AD) was a kingdom located in southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula.

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Silseong of Silla

Silseong of Silla (died 417) (r. 402–417), whose name is also given as Silju or Silgeum, was the 18th ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.

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Soga clan

The was one of the most powerful clans of the Asuka period of the early Japanese state—the Yamato polity—and played a major role in the spread of Buddhism.

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Sui dynasty

The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance.

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Susumu Ōno

was a Tokyo-born linguist, specializing in the early history of the Japanese language.

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Sword

A sword is a bladed weapon intended for slashing or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger.

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Taika Reform

The were a set of doctrines established by Emperor Kōtoku (孝徳天皇 Kōtoku-ennō) in the year 645.

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Tajima Province

was an old province of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Takamatsuzuka Tomb

The or "Tall Pine Tree Ancient Burial Mound" in Japanese is an ancient circular tomb in Asuka village, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

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Takamuko no Kuromaro

was a Japanese scholar and diplomat of the Asuka period.

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Takano no Niigasa

was a concubine of Emperor Kōnin and the mother of Emperor Kanmu.

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Tanegashima

is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Tenri University

is a Japanese private university in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, an independent part of the secular mission of the new religious movement Tenrikyo.

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The Hankyoreh

The Hankyoreh (literally "The Korean Nation" or "One Nation") is a daily newspaper in South Korea.

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Three Kingdoms of Korea

The concept of the Three Kingdoms of Korea refers to the three kingdoms of Baekje (백제), Silla (신라) and Goguryeo (고구려).

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Tsushima Strait

or Eastern Channel is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the Yellow Sea (West Sea), and the East China Sea.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Twenty-Four Histories

The Twenty-Four Histories, also known as the Orthodox Histories are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.

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Wa (Japan)

Japanese is the oldest recorded name of Japan.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Written Chinese

Written Chinese comprises Chinese characters (汉字/漢字; pinyin: Hànzì, literally "Han characters") used to represent the Chinese language.

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Yakushima

is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Yamatai

or is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period The Chinese text Records of the Three Kingdoms first recorded as Yamatai guo or Yemayi guo as the domain of Priest-Queen Himiko (died Generations of Japanese historians, linguists, and archeologists have debated where Yamatai-koku was located and whether it was related to the later.

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Yamato period

The is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.

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Yamato Province

was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū.

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Yamato Takeru

, originally, was a Japanese legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty, son of Emperor Keikō, who is traditionally counted as the 12th Emperor of Japan.

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Yayoi period

The is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC–300 AD.

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Yeongsan River

The Yeongsan River is a river in south-western South Korea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun_period

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