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Author : Junko Habu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521776708
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Author : Nelly Naumann
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Japan
ISBN : 3447043296
The existing literature on Japanese prehistory is mostly focussed on describing material culture; this new study surveys the early artifacts and shows that they were either neglected in previous studies or reported of by unfounded and fantastic speculation. The author identifies prehistoric ideas concerning hunting and fishing, the cult of the dead, and the after-life. The cosmological implications of burial topography and stone-circles are as well examined as older written texts from other parts of the world aiding in elucidating the symbols recognized on these remains. This helps to link the Jo-mon materials to other remains of similar or older age from the ancient Near East, China, the Pacific, and ancient America and proves that prehistoric Japan was never really isolated from the rest of the world. Although the method developed in this study, which rejects speculation and bases itself entirely on archaeological remains, permits only the elucidation of a part of the rich spiritual culture of prehistoric Japan; it reveals an abundance of new information concerning the most important religious ideas of mankind: the constant renewal of life, and the belief that death is not the ultimate end.
Author : Douglas M. Kenrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015037351544
Focusing on the ancient Jomon pottery of Japan, this book offers a comprehensive and illustrated overview of this early Japanese art, and its relation to the ancient pottery of other countries
Author : Keiji Imamura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135362409
An illustrated introduction to the prehistory of Japan, treated in its own right and not as a minor part of East Asia in general.
Author : Tatsuo Kobayashi
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060833194
A fully-illustrated introduction to the archaeology of the Jomon period in Japan, this book explores the complex relationships between Jomon people and their rich natural environment. From the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago to the appearance of rice agriculture around 400 BC, Jomon people subsisted by hunting, fishing and gathering; but abundant and predictable sources of wild food enabled Jomon people to live in large, relatively permanent settlements, and to develop an elaborate material culture. In this book Kobayashi and Kaner explore thematic issues in Jomon archaeology: the appearance of sedentism in the Japanese archipelago and the nature of Jomon settlements; the invention of pottery and the development and meaning of regional pottery styles; social and spiritual life; as well as the astronomical significance of causeway monuments and the conceptualisation of landscape in the Jomon period. These ideas are considered in the light of current work in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic, setting Jomon archaeology within a global context. The book draws extensively on new archaeological information from various parts of Japan, including the sites of Sannai Maruyama, Isedotai, Komankino among others. Extensive colour illustrations provide a vivid demonstration of Jomon ideology and creativity. Tatsuo Kobayashi is Professor of Archaeology at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo and Director of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History. Simon Kraner is Assistant Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
Author : Avery Morrow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591437505
The first English translation and examination of secret Japanese writings dating from the paleolithic to classical eras • Examines four suppressed and secret texts to discover the deeper truths beneath Japanese mythology • Introduces evidence of ancient civilizations in Japan, the sacred geometry of primitive times, and claims of a non-Earthly origin of the Emperors • Explores how these texts convey the sacred spiritual science of Japan’s Golden Age with parallels in ancient India, Europe, and Egypt In Japan there are roughly two dozen secret manuscripts originally dating back to the paleolithic era, the age of heroes and gods, that have been handed down by the ruling families for centuries. Rejected by orthodox Japanese scholars and never before translated into English, these documents speak of primeval alphabets, lost languages, forgotten technologies, and the sacred spiritual science. Some even refer to UFOs, Atlantis, and Jesus coming to Japan. Translating directly from the original Japanese, Avery Morrow explores four of these manuscripts in full as well as reviewing the key stories of the other Golden Age chronicles. In the Kujiki manuscript Morrow uncovers the secret symbolism of a Buddhist saint and the origin of a modern prophecy of apocalypse. In the Hotsuma Tsutaye manuscript he reveals the exploits of a noble tribe who defeated a million-strong army without violence. In the Takenouchi Documents he shows us how the first Japanese emperor came from another world and ruled at a time when Atlantis and Mu still existed. And in the Katakamuna Documents the author unveils the sacred geometries of the universe from the symbolic songs of the 10,000-year-old Ashiya tribe. He also discusses the lost scripts known as the Kamiyo Moji and the magic spiritual science that underlies all of these texts, which enabled initiates to ascend to higher emotional states and increase their life force. Taking a spiritual approach à la Julius Evola to these “parahistorical” chronicles, Morrow shows how they access a higher order of knowledge and demonstrate direct parallels to many ancient texts of India, Europe, and Egypt.
Author : Jonathan Edward Kidder,Teruya Esaka
Publisher : Kodansha America
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Pottery, Japanese
ISBN : 0870110950
Author : Enthralling History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1956296794
Author : Nadimpalli Venkata Bala Subrahmanya Dutt
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : India
ISBN : 8172110480
The book opens with the cordiality of the Yoyoi (200 b.c.-250 a.d.) and the Jomon inhabitants of Japan, and covers the material and spiritual culture brought by the Yoyoi, namely, rice and metal culture, fine pottery and weaving basic structure of language, grammar and idiom, religion, rituals and philosophy, calendar, festivals and social customs, tracing their origin to India. Three comparative tabular statements on languages and calendars are given. The author interprets for the first time the Japanese concept of the Sun-Goddess, the Divine Imperial Acestress of Japan, and the kinship of Japanese and Tibetan grammars, and presents a review of the role of Andhra in ancient history. A brief account of life and philosophy of Arya Nagarjuna is also given. The book has a chart of comparable alphabets, two maps, several photos, 120 references, and an Index to persons and places. It brings to light certain hitherto little known aspects of ancient Indo-Japanese relations.
Author : Koji Mizoguchi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0812236513
An original, substantial contribution to interpretive archaeology (the first of its kind for Japan and East Asia), An Archaeological History of Japan addresses a broad range of issues concerning the self-identification of groups and the use of the past in contemporary society.
Author : Jon Turk
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780071467094
The thrilling account of an extraordinary journey in the tradition of Kon-Tiki In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton was found beside the Columbia River, galvanizing anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from Asia by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In this compelling narrative, world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration. This story wraps an intriguing anthropological argument inside a gripping narrative about the sea, an ancient people, and the wilderness of northeast Siberia. Recounting his two-year, 3,000-mile kayak voyage from Japan's bamboo forests to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, Turk introduces strong archeological and anthropological evidence that his expedition was not the first. He explains how the ancient Jomon people could have completed this journey 10,000 to 15,000 years ago and provides insight into the question of why they did it. Both fascinating adventure and riveting prehistory, In the Wake of the Jomon is destined to become a classic.
Author : Richard E. Blanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052157787X
A study of social and political transformation and development of statehood in Oaxaca.
Author : Gerard J. Groot
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Japan
ISBN : PSU:000016838475
Author : Ann Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135784720
This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi culture were of exceptional magnitude, going far beyond those of the so-called Neolithic Revolution in other parts of the world. They included not only a new way of life based on wet-rice agriculture but also the introduction of metalworking in both bronze and iron, and furthermore a new architecture functionally and ritually linked to rice cultivation, a new religion, and a hierarchical society characterized by a belief in the divinity of the ruler. Because of its immense and enduring impact the Yayoi period has generally been seen as the very foundation of Japanese civilization and identity. In contrast to the common assumption that all the Yayoi innovations came from China and Korea, this work combines exciting new scientific evidence from such different fields as rice genetics, DNA and historical linguistics to show that the major elements of Yayoi civilization actually came, not from the north, but from the south.
Author : Akira Goto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000221138
Goto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago. Going as far back as the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers, fishermen, sailors, priests, and the ruling classes throughout Japan’s ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese people, he also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals, mythol- ogy, and Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies. This book provides a unique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history.