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Preface: We now know that human beings have lived on the Japanese archipelago for about 100,000 years. Volume I of The Cambridge History of Japan proposes to cover the first 99,000 years, a long period that ended when Japan's imperial capital was moved away from Heijo (now Nara) in A.D. 784. But until the introduction of agriculture and the use of iron tools and weapons around 300 B.C., people residing on thatnortheastern appendage to the Asian continent had made only slight progress toward civilization. Consequently, most of this volume is devoted to the final one thousand years (from 300 B.C. to A.D. 784) - the ninety-eighth millennium - of Japan's ancient past.The last two centuries (587-784) of that millennium receive a disproportionate share of attention, even though archaeological discoveries and meticulous research in Korean and Chinese sources now make it possible to outline a relatively rapid rise of kingdoms during the previous eight centuries. At about the time of Christ, some of these kingdoms were exchanging missions with the courts of imperial China, and by the third century A.D. the kingdom of Yamato was making military conquests in distant regions of the archipelag

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Author

Ed. by Delmer M. Brown

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521223546

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Asian History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14