11 Facts About Yayoi period

Yayoi period started at the beginning of the Neolithic in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.

Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jomon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi.

Yayoi followed the Jomon period and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern Kyushu to northern Honshu.

Yayoi period is generally accepted to date from 300 BCE to 300 CE.

Yayoi period pottery was simply decorated and produced using the same coiling technique previously used in Jomon pottery.

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Direct comparisons between Jomon and Yayoi period skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.

Contacts between fishing communities on this coast and the southern coast of Korea date from the Jomon Yayoi period, as witnessed by the exchange of trade items such as fishhooks and obsidian.

Three major symbols of Yayoi period culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.

Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science, compared Yayoi period remains found in Japan's Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province and found many similarities between the Yayoi period and the Jiangsu remains.

The migrant transfusion from the Korean peninsula gains strength because Yayoi period culture began on the north coast of Kyushu, where Japan is closest to Korea.

Similarly Whitman suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they were present on the Korean peninsula during the Mumun pottery period.