This is the third in an ongoing series comparing the pagan pasts and present of Britain and Japan…. For the previous two episodes please click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Part 1 compared the two … Read the rest
Category: Origins (Page 5 of 7)
Human settlement in Yayoi Japan (300 BC – 250 AD) was characterised by small groupings in river basins, surrounded by mountains and largely dependent on waterways both for rice cultivation and as a means of transport. In From … Read the rest
Britain and Japan lie on opposite sides of the world, yet the similarities between them have been often noted. They are both island nations close to a continental mainland, from which they derived their cultural trappings. Both have maintained an … Read the rest
New light on Jomon millennia
by EDAN CORKILL Japan Times SEP 28, 2013 (Abridged version below; for the original article, click here.)
The Jomon Period of Japanese history is so shrouded in the mists of time that any … Read the rest
It’s sometimes said that Shinto’s roots lie in the Yayoi period (300BC – 250 AD), when incomers from the continent brought in beliefs connected with wet-rice agriculture from Korea and China. So what was the situation before that?
It … Read the rest
With Mt Fuji’s registration, World Heritage sites are much in the news at the moment, and in this regard I’ve been looking at Japan’s Tentative List and the twelve sites which are currently waiting their turn to be nominated. … Read the rest
“Welcome to Gajo, the Home of the Japanese Royal Family”
Thanks to Green Shinto friend, San-shin expert David Mason, for pointing out an intriguing item from a Korean poster about the small town of Gajo in the south-east of Korea, … Read the rest