Hi everyone! I know the music is loud and I'm sorry! This has been a learning experience, and I can assure you it gets better in future videos (specifically, Nara Pt. 2 onward). Also! I had not yet started labeling images in my videos when I made this one, but most of the images here are from medieval/early modern works depicting Prince Shotoku's life, which is why they appear so anachronistic. They are not just random images, though, they are very much related to the subject matter.
Pretty cool. Also, I don't know if you'll comment back but you said you live in Japan. You see, once I am done with college, I going to teach English somewhere in Japan. Do you have some advice about Japan?
@@Turkmen2005 If you go into it with an open mind and a flexible attitude, I'm sure you'll have a great time. Is there anything specific you want advice on?
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Language, you see I was born with a speech impediment. When I read Japanese character I often too slow or too fast. Also, location is imported. In your belief what places in Japan is best? A mountain village, the dense, vibrant city of Tokyo or it's sister city-Yokohama, the island of Kyushu or Hokkaido where the Ainu live? In America I live in a small, really small village with less than 500 people and there is nothing there mainly because the government doesn't care about that town. Is Japan like that?
I will not follow these excellent videos any more because of the extremely irritating background "music" you needlessly use. Just awful and distracting.
I am not particularly familiar with Asian history but I know in Europe it has happened occasionally that lots of achievements and actions get attributed to a single more famous person. Sometimes new characters are invented from whole cloth and the actions of many actual people are attributed to them. A good example of this would be Arthur, the earliest mention of the name in Welsh sources attribute 12 battles to him where he supposedly defeated the Saxons, however the only 3 battles we know actually happened were all lead by different people whose names we actually still know. So Shotoku, or his real name, might have been an actual character of some renown who over time just got more and more things ascribed to him. Even without speculating about this we can say for certain that he was hardly single handedly responsible for the reforms attributed to him, a lot of the work was probably done by government employees whose names we'll never know.
Super interesting, thanks a lot for this format. One favor I'd ask, please decrease the volume of the music in the background a lil bit further. It can be quite distracting at times, because it's good music ;)
I appreciate that feedback! 😅 I get kind of desensitized to it while editing and often wonder whether it’s too loud or not. Noted! I will try to keep it a bit lower going forward. And thanks for watching!
Future video idea: It would be fascinating to have one that explores some of the recent scholarship & debates about Prince Shotoku's existence (or otherwise) and related issues
**Japanese Messenger:** Our Great King handles all state affairs during the night, and during the day he entrusts all matters to his little brother, the Sun. **Emperor Wen:** I don’t know bro, sounds kinda cringe.
I find the background music volume too high and distracting from the actual narrative, otherwise I love these videos. Just meant as truly constructive feedback
Much of these paintings are anachronistic. They didn't dress in the manner that the paintings have them as. The artwork in the prior videos tend to have them in more period accurate clothing. I prefer the latter.
This is absolutely true, and it’s because there is no Asuka Period artwork depicting the events discussed here. I used a bunch of pictures from the Shōtoku Taishi Eden (聖徳太子絵伝) which actually depict the supposed events of his life, but they are mostly from the Muromachi Period and Edo Period (there is one from the Heian Period, but it’s VERY degraded so I don’t think it made it into the video). I probably should have made it more clear that I was showing these, rather than just random medieval drawings of samurai 😅 Hopefully knowing that most of the pictures in this video are actually depicting the exact events I’m talking about will make it a bit more interesting for you if you ever want to give it another watch. (I’m currently working on the Heian Pt. 2 video, and I think I’ll try to include more footnotes about the artwork in this one ✌️)
I have a slight question if Soga no Iruka was the last one in 645, how did the soga brothers in 1140 Exist? They wouldnt be soga then right? Or are they a different family with the same name like the Hojo?
They are different families! The name kanji is different (蘇我vs.曽我). I believe the samurai Soga took their name from a tract of land (shoen estate) they were in charge of.
Most likely in the first half of the Heian Period (~800-1000 CE). This was the period when Japan transitioned over from having a government-supplied army of conscripted peasants to entrusting the protection of the provincial capitals to wealthy and powerful local families. This lead to a change away from rank-and-file foot soldiers with standard-issue armor and weapons to wealthy mounted warriors who could afford to spend lots of time and money on getting really good gear (as well as gear that was particularly suited for horseback combat). The wars with the northern Emishi "barbarians" during this period would also lead to the creation of what we think of today as "samurai swords" (katana, tachi, etc.), as the Emishi used slightly-curved, single-edged swords which provided the inspiration for these (warabite-tô・蕨手刀). All of the images from Japanese history depicting the events of Prince Shôtoku's life were drawn in later eras, which is why you see samurai-style armor in many of the images in this video. In reality, these guys would have been wearing something closer to what was worn in the Kofun Period (something like this, perhaps: www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20190910001889.html )
@@DanielRivera-lg8wn They really don't seem to have shown up until the mid-Heian Period, accompanying the rise in mounted warfare (easier/safer to draw while on horseback). I'm by no means an expert on this, but this is also what the Touken World website ( www.touken.or.jp/museum/sword/history.html ) and the Japanese Sword Museum website ( www.touken.or.jp/museum/sword/history.html ) have to say on the subject. Japanese swords in the 700s aka the Nara Period were most likely still straight, footsoldier-oriented weapons.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Curved swords being associated with mounted combat would make sense because that's also what we see in Europe with the rise of the sabre. In infantry combat you want both sides to have a cutting edge but cavalry mainly use their swords for downwards slashes where you want as much force in the slash as possible.
Taikanokaishin restoratiton occurred in AD 645. At the time enperor was empress Kogyoku. This empress abdicated in AD645, and she enthroned in AD 661 again. She sent 10,000 troops and 4000ships to Hakusukinoe Korean port for reinforcement to allied Baekje against Tung-china and Silla in AD663. Baekje was established by Japanese, and they spoke Japanese. Unfortunately Japan was defeated by Tung china. So many Japanese baekje people came to Japan to exille. A boy, one of them there was Yamanoue,Okura as 8 years old, had been taken by his father Okuhito. Yamanoue,Okuhito had been working in palace of Baekje as bureaucrat. And he could get job in palace of Japan. Ymanoue,Okura became great man in Japan.
@@TomFynn Japanese people find the Latin alphabet and European writing systems equally confusing. English has a ton of examples of things being spelled the same but pronounced differently or the other way around, ghoti is for example a way you could spell fish if you just carefully select which sounds you use.
@@hedgehog3180 My impression would be that 26 letters are way easier. I remember being able to read before school, because my granny had me read the headlines of the daily newspaper. Granted, it was the BILD Zeitung (what the Brits would call "The Sun") and so it had big letters and simple words. On the other hand, I tried my hand at memorizing kanji much later in life and found that this would have required far more cramming than I was prepared to cut from my leisure time. Learning kanji with their double or triple ways of pronunciation I think is something that must be started in early life and needs years of constant learning practice.
I honestly can’t tell you for sure, but it looks like there were a bunch of clothing stipulations in 701’s Taihō Ritsuryō law code that implemented various Tang Chinese-style outfits among the Japanese aristocracy. It seems plausible that this is the point when a lot of that ancient, native Japanese-style fashion really phased out.
The Yayoi in Japan originated from what is now modern-day People's republic of China, but that doesn't necessarily make Han Chinese, although the idea of a historical Han chinese race is nothing but a modern invention, the people in Chinese History are historically multidiverse and multicultural. Btw everything you are talking was already underway at least 1,000 years before Qin Dynasty. But do you really believe the Chinese invented rice, textiles, medicine and agricultural tools?? Did the Chinese teach Indians how to cultivate rice too? Lol. Rice is a quasi-universal staple food in all of monsoon/Rainy Asia, stretching from Japan all the way down to Indonesia and west to Sri Lanka. For some weird reason, the Chinese in recent years have come to believe they invented the world, seriously there are even claims by your scholars backed by CCP education, claiming Shakespeare copied Chinese culture and English is a Chinese dialect. Why are Chinese people so insecure about themselves?
That is, from the pre -Qin dynasty, there have been 4 times large -scale immigrants from Chinese(Han) to enter the Japanese islands and Korean Peninsula, which have a profound impact on the historical trends of China and Japan and ( Korean Peninsula ). Focus on reference materials : Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD) Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history ) The Chinese carefully taught the primitives of Japan (and korea) at the time to teach the knowledge of rice, cutting wells, manufacturing agricultural tools, spreading medicine, textiles and other knowledge. They pushed Japan from the brutal primitive society to a slave society. Chinese Han people's four large -scale immigrants enter the Japanese islands record : 1. Qin and Han Dynasty Qin Shihuang (秦始皇 259-210 BC) swept the six regions. In order to escape the war, the Chinese people fled to Japan in two ways: Some Chinese people crossed the sea from the Northeast to the Korean Peninsula to Japan. Japan. 2. During the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 -589 BC) During the period of "Upheaval of the Five Barbarians 五胡亂華", in order to avoid the war, the Chinese people began a wave of migration to a large -scale migration around. Most of the fleeing Chinese finally went to Japan, forming the climax of immigration to Japan. The representative is Liu Azhi (劉阿知), the descendant of Emperor Han Xian(漢獻帝). 3. The Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 BC) Japan sent a large -scale Tang ambassador to China to visit China, while China sent a large number of people to spread advanced technology and culture to Japan. Most of these people are monks or cultural scholars. They are left as required by the Japanese because of the difficult sailing and welcomed by Japan. They often stay and "domestication" into the Japanese. The representative is the monk Jianzhen(監真). 4. The Song (960-1279)and Ming dynasties(1368-1644) In the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people in the southern Song Dynasty broke their families. In order to avoid the war and kill, they moved to Japan one after another. The representative of this period was scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty - Lanxi Daolong(蘭溪道隆). ------------------------------ In ancient China. Due to the escape or expansion of territorial reasons. There were many records of the Han people moved to the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese islands (including Okinawa). Establishing small countries and regimes on these islands (representing Chinese senior officials rather than emperor). In addition to the later period of Japan (because of the ocean). The Han regime on the Korean Peninsula has always been the ancient Chinese territory and the scope of direct jurisdiction (but sometimes it is similar to the different phenomenon of political opinions from the central government. It is similar to the situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. When the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong and the central government is bad. Sometimes they think they are independent countries or claim to be non -Chinese). The history of the establishment of a regime on the Korean Peninsula (Goguryeo, Baiji, Silla, Goryeo early). It is not the history of the Korean people. Instead, it is the history of the local regime of the Han people in northern China.These royal family and nobles are Chinese and descendants who move to the peninsula. They are wearing Han nationality clothing and using Chinese characters. They also claim to be the Han family. Only some civilians and slaves are indigenous people from the south of the peninsula (Koreans). This is very certain. (A large number of ancient Chinese tombs were unearthed on the 2/3 Korean Peninsula today. Han murals (depicting the lives of the Han people in the north), the fairy and god beast of the Han nationality.Han religion. Chinese character stone monument. Han Dynasty coins. ........... The southernmost part of the peninsula is unearthed in the original and backward Korean national life tools. It can be seen that the extremes of two different ethnic groups( Chinese VS Korean ) and different civilizations exist at the same time in the same period of the peninsula history. * The Founder of Goguryeo, JUMONG(朱蒙) Is Actually Chinese Pronunciation. Goguryeo was a northern Han area (and different government opinions, like the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong today) in the Tang Dynasty's governance regime. Baekje, SILLA is also the place of power governance in China. These are regional regimes created by the Han people in the north. (Obviously prove this from a lot of historical data and unearthed cultural relics). The original Korean indigenous people at the southernmost tip of the Korean are slaves. They were convened and became slaves. They were wearing pure white (no dyes and technology) and women showing her nipples as beauty. This is the custom of Korean people. Goryeo's founding king-Wang Jian (王建). Wang Jian (王建) is very obviously the immigrants or descendants of the Han people (whether the culture of clothes is the Han culture), this possibility is quite high. Because Wang Jian is the descendant of the Chinese (Han), the regime he has established follows the abbreviation of the ancient country Goguryeo, as the new national name Goryeo. The North Korean people at the southern end of the peninsula were called as workers and slaves (wearing pure white clothes and women to show nipples). Later, they became the civilians of Goryeo. The history of the Korean nation is the history of slave. They have never sovereignty.
Empires are reliant on maintaining this image of superiority in order to stay in power, which is why you'll see it in all empires throughout history. The entire state is built up around the fiction that the emperor is beyond mortal men and can't be compared to anyone, possibly being divine, and so anything implying otherwise puts the stability of the state at risk.
Shotoku reminds me of how in Danish history classes Danish history usually starts in 960-980 with the Jelling Stone and the first king is said to be Gorm the Old who reigned from the 930s onward, even though among scholars there's a pretty clear consensus that there was a Danish Kingdom all the way back in the 800s and we even know the name of one king, Frede Godfred, because he's mentioned in Frankish sources. History education just sticks to the traditional narrative because it's a lot easier to teach and who the first king was isn't really that important anyways.
I think history education also has to keep teaching about Shotoku partly because he's so culturally significant in Japan. Even if he was more myth than man, his existence in the general public consciousness had lots of ramifications that extended into the religious and political world after his death (although I must admit that I am not super well-versed in the specifics of what those ramifications were...) On an unrelated note, Gorm the Old is an extremely cool name. Sounds like a Baldur's Gate character or something.
Hi everyone! I know the music is loud and I'm sorry! This has been a learning experience, and I can assure you it gets better in future videos (specifically, Nara Pt. 2 onward).
Also! I had not yet started labeling images in my videos when I made this one, but most of the images here are from medieval/early modern works depicting Prince Shotoku's life, which is why they appear so anachronistic. They are not just random images, though, they are very much related to the subject matter.
Pretty cool. Also, I don't know if you'll comment back but you said you live in Japan. You see, once I am done with college, I going to teach English somewhere in Japan. Do you have some advice about Japan?
@@Turkmen2005 If you go into it with an open mind and a flexible attitude, I'm sure you'll have a great time. Is there anything specific you want advice on?
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Language, you see I was born with a speech impediment. When I read Japanese character I often too slow or too fast. Also, location is imported. In your belief what places in Japan is best? A mountain village, the dense, vibrant city of Tokyo or it's sister city-Yokohama, the island of Kyushu or Hokkaido where the Ainu live? In America I live in a small, really small village with less than 500 people and there is nothing there mainly because the government doesn't care about that town. Is Japan like that?
I will not follow these excellent videos any more because of the extremely irritating background "music" you needlessly use. Just awful and distracting.
I sometimes wonder if Shotoku might actually have been multiple persons whose achievements have been amalgamated into one person.
I am not particularly familiar with Asian history but I know in Europe it has happened occasionally that lots of achievements and actions get attributed to a single more famous person. Sometimes new characters are invented from whole cloth and the actions of many actual people are attributed to them. A good example of this would be Arthur, the earliest mention of the name in Welsh sources attribute 12 battles to him where he supposedly defeated the Saxons, however the only 3 battles we know actually happened were all lead by different people whose names we actually still know.
So Shotoku, or his real name, might have been an actual character of some renown who over time just got more and more things ascribed to him. Even without speculating about this we can say for certain that he was hardly single handedly responsible for the reforms attributed to him, a lot of the work was probably done by government employees whose names we'll never know.
I believe you’re not alone in this opinion.
I wonder if Yamato no Takeru was a real person as well.
Super interesting, thanks a lot for this format. One favor I'd ask, please decrease the volume of the music in the background a lil bit further. It can be quite distracting at times, because it's good music ;)
I appreciate that feedback! 😅 I get kind of desensitized to it while editing and often wonder whether it’s too loud or not. Noted! I will try to keep it a bit lower going forward.
And thanks for watching!
Future video idea: It would be fascinating to have one that explores some of the recent scholarship & debates about Prince Shotoku's existence (or otherwise) and related issues
Bro your intro's aways goes hard ,it makes one want to listen and puts one in the zone
Thank you so much!! The video was very interesting and all the legends and anecdotes made it even more fun to follow. Much appreciated ♥︎
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you liked it 😁
Thanks!
Thank you so much! 🙏
THANK you putting your sources and for making this video
Brilliant stuff man! Keep it coming!
These videos are awesome! Thank you for making this series!
Thank you for watching!
One of the best episodes yet🎉
Thank you! Very well made!
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching it! :D
**Japanese Messenger:** Our Great King handles all state affairs during the night, and during the day he entrusts all matters to his little brother, the Sun.
**Emperor Wen:** I don’t know bro, sounds kinda cringe.
could this period then be considered the first time japan was known as “the land of the rising sun”?
These videos are extremely helpfull! Thank you!
Prince Shotoku must have been a pretty cool dude if he is fondly remembered and stories were made about his life.
I find the background music volume too high and distracting from the actual narrative, otherwise I love these videos. Just meant as truly constructive feedback
There is a channel which is not pathologically focused on samurai 😅
Great video again
do you know a manga 日出処の天子? it is known as a classic masterpiece of shojo manga that depicts story around prince shotoku
So.. the Soga had the place in lockdown and one assassination knocks them out? Got to look into this.
What song is playing during "Prince Shotoku's Achievements" please and thank you 🙏
It is a random beat I made in my younger days!
Much of these paintings are anachronistic. They didn't dress in the manner that the paintings have them as. The artwork in the prior videos tend to have them in more period accurate clothing. I prefer the latter.
This is absolutely true, and it’s because there is no Asuka Period artwork depicting the events discussed here. I used a bunch of pictures from the Shōtoku Taishi Eden (聖徳太子絵伝) which actually depict the supposed events of his life, but they are mostly from the Muromachi Period and Edo Period (there is one from the Heian Period, but it’s VERY degraded so I don’t think it made it into the video). I probably should have made it more clear that I was showing these, rather than just random medieval drawings of samurai 😅 Hopefully knowing that most of the pictures in this video are actually depicting the exact events I’m talking about will make it a bit more interesting for you if you ever want to give it another watch. (I’m currently working on the Heian Pt. 2 video, and I think I’ll try to include more footnotes about the artwork in this one ✌️)
I have a slight question if Soga no Iruka was the last one in 645, how did the soga brothers in 1140 Exist? They wouldnt be soga then right? Or are they a different family with the same name like the Hojo?
They are different families! The name kanji is different (蘇我vs.曽我). I believe the samurai Soga took their name from a tract of land (shoen estate) they were in charge of.
When did Japanese armor become to look more Samurai like?
Most likely in the first half of the Heian Period (~800-1000 CE). This was the period when Japan transitioned over from having a government-supplied army of conscripted peasants to entrusting the protection of the provincial capitals to wealthy and powerful local families. This lead to a change away from rank-and-file foot soldiers with standard-issue armor and weapons to wealthy mounted warriors who could afford to spend lots of time and money on getting really good gear (as well as gear that was particularly suited for horseback combat). The wars with the northern Emishi "barbarians" during this period would also lead to the creation of what we think of today as "samurai swords" (katana, tachi, etc.), as the Emishi used slightly-curved, single-edged swords which provided the inspiration for these (warabite-tô・蕨手刀). All of the images from Japanese history depicting the events of Prince Shôtoku's life were drawn in later eras, which is why you see samurai-style armor in many of the images in this video. In reality, these guys would have been wearing something closer to what was worn in the Kofun Period (something like this, perhaps: www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20190910001889.html )
Sorry for the length 😅
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I thought curved swords came out in the 700s)
@@DanielRivera-lg8wn They really don't seem to have shown up until the mid-Heian Period, accompanying the rise in mounted warfare (easier/safer to draw while on horseback). I'm by no means an expert on this, but this is also what the Touken World website ( www.touken.or.jp/museum/sword/history.html ) and the Japanese Sword Museum website ( www.touken.or.jp/museum/sword/history.html ) have to say on the subject. Japanese swords in the 700s aka the Nara Period were most likely still straight, footsoldier-oriented weapons.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Curved swords being associated with mounted combat would make sense because that's also what we see in Europe with the rise of the sabre. In infantry combat you want both sides to have a cutting edge but cavalry mainly use their swords for downwards slashes where you want as much force in the slash as possible.
In this episode, you mentioned forced suicide. Curiously, how was suicide so widely assimilated into the culture? Is this a shinto or bhuddist thing?
Taikanokaishin restoratiton occurred in AD 645. At the time enperor was empress Kogyoku.
This empress abdicated in AD645, and she enthroned in AD 661 again. She sent 10,000 troops and 4000ships to Hakusukinoe Korean port for reinforcement to allied Baekje against Tung-china and Silla in AD663. Baekje was established by Japanese, and they spoke Japanese. Unfortunately Japan was defeated by Tung china. So many Japanese baekje people came to Japan to exille.
A boy, one of them there was Yamanoue,Okura as 8 years old, had been taken by his father Okuhito. Yamanoue,Okuhito had been working in palace of Baekje as bureaucrat. And he could get job in palace of Japan. Ymanoue,Okura became great man in Japan.
Am I the only one who, upon hearing "Asuka Period", thinks "Asuka Langley Soryu"? Please tell it isn't so.
Though they are the same spelling in English, there are some different ways to write the word in Japanese, like 飛鳥 and 明日香.
@@atsukorichards1675 The ways of writing words in Japanese are myriad and indeed confusing. How the Japanese deal with this I'll never understand.
Me too.
@@TomFynn Japanese people find the Latin alphabet and European writing systems equally confusing. English has a ton of examples of things being spelled the same but pronounced differently or the other way around, ghoti is for example a way you could spell fish if you just carefully select which sounds you use.
@@hedgehog3180 My impression would be that 26 letters are way easier. I remember being able to read before school, because my granny had me read the headlines of the daily newspaper. Granted, it was the BILD Zeitung (what the Brits would call "The Sun") and so it had big letters and simple words. On the other hand, I tried my hand at memorizing kanji much later in life and found that this would have required far more cramming than I was prepared to cut from my leisure time. Learning kanji with their double or triple ways of pronunciation I think is something that must be started in early life and needs years of constant learning practice.
When did Japanese men stop wearing trousers bloused at the knee and their hair in those midzura side buns hairstyles?
I honestly can’t tell you for sure, but it looks like there were a bunch of clothing stipulations in 701’s Taihō Ritsuryō law code that implemented various Tang Chinese-style outfits among the Japanese aristocracy. It seems plausible that this is the point when a lot of that ancient, native Japanese-style fashion really phased out.
Really interesting, the music is off putting though
I’m going to bring the volume down in future episodes so it’s not as in-your-face. Glad you found it interesting though!
No worries , sorry for the negative comment , you can see the hard work you put into it .
auscountryguy30 Not at all! Constructive criticism is always much appreciated 👌 Thanks for the kind words as well.
Sword art Online ost?
Good ear 😉
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I thought so. Seems to have been remixed a bit but I used to listen to that a lot haha
Your videos are amazing but please get rid of the music, or at the least choose calm and low volume music.
It’s been changed from episode 7 on! The Samurai Champloo vibe didn’t work out as well as I hoped… Thank you for the support though!
The Yayoi in Japan originated from what is now modern-day People's republic of China, but that doesn't necessarily make Han Chinese, although the idea of a historical Han chinese race is nothing but a modern invention, the people in Chinese History are historically multidiverse and multicultural. Btw everything you are talking was already underway at least 1,000 years before Qin Dynasty. But do you really believe the Chinese invented rice, textiles, medicine and agricultural tools?? Did the Chinese teach Indians how to cultivate rice too? Lol. Rice is a quasi-universal staple food in all of monsoon/Rainy Asia, stretching from Japan all the way down to Indonesia and west to Sri Lanka. For some weird reason, the Chinese in recent years have come to believe they invented the world, seriously there are even claims by your scholars backed by CCP education, claiming Shakespeare copied Chinese culture and English is a Chinese dialect. Why are Chinese people so insecure about themselves?
That is, from the pre -Qin dynasty, there have been 4 times large -scale immigrants from Chinese(Han) to enter the Japanese islands and Korean Peninsula, which have a profound impact on the historical trends of China and Japan and ( Korean Peninsula ).
Focus on reference materials :
Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD)
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history )
The Chinese carefully taught the primitives of Japan (and korea) at the time to teach the knowledge of rice, cutting wells, manufacturing agricultural tools, spreading medicine, textiles and other knowledge. They pushed Japan from the brutal primitive society to a slave society.
Chinese Han people's four large -scale immigrants enter the Japanese islands record :
1. Qin and Han Dynasty
Qin Shihuang (秦始皇 259-210 BC) swept the six regions. In order to escape the war, the Chinese people fled to Japan in two ways: Some Chinese people crossed the sea from the Northeast to the Korean Peninsula to Japan. Japan.
2. During the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 -589 BC)
During the period of "Upheaval of the Five Barbarians 五胡亂華", in order to avoid the war, the Chinese people began a wave of migration to a large -scale migration around.
Most of the fleeing Chinese finally went to Japan, forming the climax of immigration to Japan. The representative is Liu Azhi (劉阿知), the descendant of Emperor Han Xian(漢獻帝).
3. The Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 BC)
Japan sent a large -scale Tang ambassador to China to visit China, while China sent a large number of people to spread advanced technology and culture to Japan. Most of these people are monks or cultural scholars. They are left as required by the Japanese because of the difficult sailing and welcomed by Japan. They often stay and "domestication" into the Japanese. The representative is the monk Jianzhen(監真).
4. The Song (960-1279)and Ming dynasties(1368-1644)
In the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people in the southern Song Dynasty broke their families. In order to avoid the war and kill, they moved to Japan one after another. The representative of this period was scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty - Lanxi Daolong(蘭溪道隆).
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In ancient China. Due to the escape or expansion of territorial reasons. There were many records of the Han people moved to the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese islands (including Okinawa). Establishing small countries and regimes on these islands (representing Chinese senior officials rather than emperor).
In addition to the later period of Japan (because of the ocean). The Han regime on the Korean Peninsula has always been the ancient Chinese territory and the scope of direct jurisdiction (but sometimes it is similar to the different phenomenon of political opinions from the central government. It is similar to the situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. When the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong and the central government is bad. Sometimes they think they are independent countries or claim to be non -Chinese).
The history of the establishment of a regime on the Korean Peninsula (Goguryeo, Baiji, Silla, Goryeo early). It is not the history of the Korean people. Instead, it is the history of the local regime of the Han people in northern China.These royal family and nobles are Chinese and descendants who move to the peninsula. They are wearing Han nationality clothing and using Chinese characters. They also claim to be the Han family.
Only some civilians and slaves are indigenous people from the south of the peninsula (Koreans). This is very certain.
(A large number of ancient Chinese tombs were unearthed on the 2/3 Korean Peninsula today. Han murals (depicting the lives of the Han people in the north), the fairy and god beast of the Han nationality.Han religion. Chinese character stone monument. Han Dynasty coins. ...........
The southernmost part of the peninsula is unearthed in the original and backward Korean national life tools.
It can be seen that the extremes of two different ethnic groups( Chinese VS Korean ) and different civilizations exist at the same time in the same period of the peninsula history.
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The Founder of Goguryeo, JUMONG(朱蒙) Is Actually Chinese Pronunciation.
Goguryeo was a northern Han area (and different government opinions, like the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong today) in the Tang Dynasty's governance regime. Baekje, SILLA is also the place of power governance in China. These are regional regimes created by the Han people in the north. (Obviously prove this from a lot of historical data and unearthed cultural relics).
The original Korean indigenous people at the southernmost tip of the Korean are slaves. They were convened and became slaves. They were wearing pure white (no dyes and technology) and women showing her nipples as beauty. This is the custom of Korean people.
Goryeo's founding king-Wang Jian (王建).
Wang Jian (王建) is very obviously the immigrants or descendants of the Han people (whether the culture of clothes is the Han culture), this possibility is quite high.
Because Wang Jian is the descendant of the Chinese (Han), the regime he has established follows the abbreviation of the ancient country Goguryeo, as the new national name Goryeo. The North Korean people at the southern end of the peninsula were called as workers and slaves (wearing pure white clothes and women to show nipples). Later, they became the civilians of Goryeo.
The history of the Korean nation is the history of slave. They have never sovereignty.
The Sui emperor was a jerk.
He certainly wasn’t in the mood for any shenanigans that day
Empires are reliant on maintaining this image of superiority in order to stay in power, which is why you'll see it in all empires throughout history. The entire state is built up around the fiction that the emperor is beyond mortal men and can't be compared to anyone, possibly being divine, and so anything implying otherwise puts the stability of the state at risk.
Shotoku reminds me of how in Danish history classes Danish history usually starts in 960-980 with the Jelling Stone and the first king is said to be Gorm the Old who reigned from the 930s onward, even though among scholars there's a pretty clear consensus that there was a Danish Kingdom all the way back in the 800s and we even know the name of one king, Frede Godfred, because he's mentioned in Frankish sources. History education just sticks to the traditional narrative because it's a lot easier to teach and who the first king was isn't really that important anyways.
I think history education also has to keep teaching about Shotoku partly because he's so culturally significant in Japan. Even if he was more myth than man, his existence in the general public consciousness had lots of ramifications that extended into the religious and political world after his death (although I must admit that I am not super well-versed in the specifics of what those ramifications were...)
On an unrelated note, Gorm the Old is an extremely cool name. Sounds like a Baldur's Gate character or something.
Nice!