Korean Impact on Japanese Culture

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This account of the founding of Japan's imperial line and the subsequent introduction of Buddhism is a major extension beyond already published works. Both in the East and the West, scholars have customarily ignored the pivotal role played by Koreans in the early centuries of Japan's cultural development.
Facts are drawn from known sources, the eighth-century Nihongi and Kojiki, and several others of early date. However, unlike most accounts, this book does not gloss over the hidden meanings, vague references and outright distortions present in Japan's earliest written records. Since Korea is mentioned over and over again, it seems strange that now Korea's influence should be confined to grudging footnotes.
Archeology, the most unbiased of sources, through pigments in Japan's prehistoric tumuli, proclaims continental arrivals and gives the lie to a century of solemn pronouncements about the uniqueness of Japanese origins. The conditions of early travel and commerce disprove the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This account of the founding of Japan's imperial line and the subsequent introduction of Buddhism is a major extension beyond already published works. Both in the East and the West, scholars have customarily ignored the pivotal role played by Koreans in the early centuries of Japan's cultural development.
Facts are drawn from known sources, the eighth-century Nihongi and Kojiki, and several others of early date. However, unlike most accounts, this book does not gloss over the hidden meanings, vague references and outright distortions present in Japan's earliest written records. Since Korea is mentioned over and over again, it seems strange that now Korea's influence should be confined to grudging footnotes.
Archeology, the most unbiased of sources, through pigments in Japan's prehistoric tumuli, proclaims continental arrivals and gives the lie to a century of solemn pronouncements about the uniqueness of Japanese origins. The conditions of early travel and commerce disprove the worn-out statements concerning direct Chinese influences on Asuka Buddhist art in Japan.
This deliberate coverup of Korea's role in Japan's development, has existed since the late 19th century, but it is as out-of-date as emperor worship. This book includes multiple records and reasonable speculations derived therefrom. The time has arrived to recognize the first bringers of high civilization to the Japanese islands-immigrants from the Korean peninsula. Vissza