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Refugees who practised ritual tooth ablation brought rice cultivation...
As a followup to our last post entitled Ritual tooth ablation: Why did prehistoric peoples pull out perfectly good teeth?, we would like to add this excerpt on “The Dispersal of Teeth Extraction” which...
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Chinkon, cloudsoul, soul-summoning and soul-shaking practices – origins and...
The Raifuku (outer robe) of the ceremonial court costume of the Emperor Komei(r. 1846-1866). This ceremonial court costume originates in the Nara-period (710-784) Imperial Collections of Japan Source:...
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Moat and remnants of a 7th c. burial mound, possibly an emperor’s, in Asuka...
The moat in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, that is believed to be part of the first burial site of Emperor Jomei (593-641) (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Possible ruins of ancient emperor’s grave unearthed in...
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Timber of Jomon period processed to make mortise-tenon joint discovered
A tiber with a tenon discovered at the Mawaki remains of the Jomon period Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun The Yomiuri Shimbun, 30 Jan 2015 KANAZAWA — A rectangular timber with its tip shaped into a tenon,...
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Fortune-telling bone of wild boar found at ancient Makimuku ruins
The Yomiuri ShimbunA bokkotsu bone of a wild boar found at the ancient Makimuku ruins in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture Feb 7, 2014 The Yomiuri Shimbun NARA — The bone of a wild boar believed to have been...
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Manga, Comic Book, and Graphic Novel Courses for Aspiring Creators
Originally posted on Jade's Escape: Finding a course can be hard, especially if you’re not Japanese. Here’s a few places to find manga and sequential, or comic book, art courses around the world. Free...
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Ancient salt production and trade in Japan
Salt, and iron, aside from rice, were the most precious economic and trading commodities and resources of ancient East Asian states. When the rulers of the polities controlled or monopolized trade in...
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The latest find of seven dotaku bells from Awajishima Island pushes back date...
Dotaku bells found on Awajishima Island (The Yomiuri Shimbun, May 20, 2015) Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun Seven dotaku bronze bells from the mid-Yayoi period, or around the second century B.C., were...
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The size of the Mongol genetic footprint across Eurasia, a footprint that was...
Depiction of the samurai Suenaga Takezaki repelling Mongol and Korean arrows and bombs at Torikai-Gata. “Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba” by 竹崎季長 – 蒙古襲来絵詞. Open source: Wikimedia Commons Genetics researchers in...
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Cormorant fishing began in Japan by the Kofun period at least, ancient...
Courtesy of the Yamanashi Prefectural Government The ancient art of cormorant fishing is called ukai and is still practised in 13 cities in Japan today. Usho fishing masters are charged with procuring...
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Introducing the Iwakage Megaliths
heritageofjapan:Megalithic sites of Japan have been under-researched and the origins of solar worship and the people who were sun-and-rock worshipers in Japan requires much deeper and comprehensive...
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Whale shrines and Bake-kujira – Ghost Whale tales out of Shimane and Okinawa
A marvelous write-up on Bakekujira and whale cults of Japan, and a visual treat for lovers of kaidan and whales, is to be found at Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
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Recent research pinpoints North China as centre of millet domestication,...
Source: PNAS study Fig. 1 Cishan site in North China, proposed centre of millet domestication in East Asia Broomcorn millet, barnyard millet, and foxtail millet were all species of millet cultivated...
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Oldest basil pollen in Japan found in ditch of 3rd c. Makimuku ruins, Nara,...
A microscopic image of basil pollen, found at a third-century ruin in Nara prefecture, central Japan. Research Center for Makimukugaku, Sakurai City The Makimuku ruins in Nara prefecture where the...
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Edo period ofuda
Originally posted on asceticsandpilgrims: I stumbled upon a trove of Edo periodofuda 御札, or protective talisman, while searching through archives at the Nagano Prefectural Historical Museum last week....
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Manga, Comic Book, and Graphic Novel Courses for Aspiring Creators
Originally posted on Jade's Escape: Finding a course can be hard, especially if you’re not Japanese. Here’s a few places to find manga and sequential, or comic book, art courses around the world. Free...
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Ancient salt production and trade in Japan
Salt, and iron, aside from rice, were the most precious economic and trading commodities and resources of ancient East Asian states. When the rulers of the polities controlled or monopolized trade in...
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The latest find of seven dotaku bells from Awajishima Island pushes back date...
Dotaku bells found on Awajishima Island (The Yomiuri Shimbun, May 20, 2015) Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun Seven dotaku bronze bells from the mid-Yayoi period, or around the second century B.C., were...
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The size of the Mongol genetic footprint across Eurasia, a footprint that was...
Depiction of the samurai Suenaga Takezaki repelling Mongol and Korean arrows and bombs at Torikai-Gata. “Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba” by 竹崎季長 – 蒙古襲来絵詞. Open source: Wikimedia Commons Genetics researchers in...
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Cormorant fishing began in Japan by the Kofun period at least, ancient...
Courtesy of the Yamanashi Prefectural Government The ancient art of cormorant fishing is called ukai and is still practised in 13 cities in Japan today. Usho fishing masters are charged with procuring...
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