- Front Page
- 1. Along the Paleolithic Path
- 2. Amazing Jomon Japan
- 3. The Yayoi Years
- 4. Towering tumuli of the Kofun era
- 5. Buddhism blossoms in Asuka
- 6. Nara Period nurtures Chinese culture
Pages
- 1. Along the Paleolithic Path
- 2. Amazing Jomon Japan
- Jomon Cultural Milestones: Ten thousand years is a long time
- Origins of the Jomon, Jomon connections with the continent and with today’s Japanese
- The Mystery at YONAGUNI: Is there a 10,000 year old pyramid and city underwater at Yonaguni?
- Ways of the Jomon World
- A-hunting we will go!
- Boom of the barter trade
- Did the Jomon have a calendar?
- Did the Jomon people go to war?
- Did the Jomon people keep any pets?
- Fashion: clothing and jewellery of Jomon times
- Field Trip! Experience life as a Jomon hunter-gatherer.
- Gone fishing!
- Jomon architecture
- Jomon crafts and what they were for
- The all-natural Jomon toilet
- The Jomon diet
- The Jomon Hearth and Home
- The Jomon world of ceremony and ritual
- Travel Jomon-style
- Views on the Jomon village
- What happened when a Jomon villager died?
- What was the climate and environment like ?
- 3. The Yayoi Years
- Advent of Agriculture and the Rice Revolution
- Every pot tells a story
- Life in a Wet Rice Farming Village
- Queen Himiko and the mystery of Yamatai-koku
- When Japan entered the Iron & Bronze Age
- Lifestyle and Society of the land of Wa
- Origins of the Yayoi people
- Advent of Agriculture and the Rice Revolution
- 4. Towering tumuli of the Kofun era
- 3rd century: Powerful priest kings of Yamato and sacred Mt Miwa
- 4th century: The Legend of Prince Yamatotakeru: the path he took and Yamato’s expansion
- 5th century: The rise of royal estates
- Types of tumuli and haniwa cylinders
- Designs of the decorated tombs – what did they mean?
- Did keyhole-shaped tombs originate in the Korean peninsula?
- In the news: Discovery of boat-shaped haniwa shows belief of souls transported to the afterlife by ship
- In the news: Excavations of Makimuku ruins in Nara expected to reveal much about nation’s first true city and Yamatai
- In the news: Sixth century tomb’s ‘haniwa’ is two-faced first
- Recommended field trip: Sakitama ancient burial mounds
- Tomb treasures of the ancient tumuli
- Who lies entombed within?
- 5. Buddhism blossoms in Asuka
- How Buddhism took root in Japan
- Reviewing the ruins of the Asuka-kyo and Fujiwara-kyo, the first imperial capitals of Japan
- Ancient stone sluiceway of Asuka
- Architecture of Asuka: palaces & pagodas
- Asuka’s burial practices: from stone tombs to cremation
- In the news: Ancient Kazumayama tomb discovery suggests Korean Paekche kingdom’s royalty may have fled to Japan
- Preserving ruins of an ancient era /Asukamura maintains cultural heritage while looking to the future
- The art of Asuka
- 6. Nara Period nurtures Chinese culture
- Nara capital built in the shadow of the Chinese empire & under the influences of the Silk Road
- Nara Court and Ceremony and the flowering of the Tempyo Culture
- Tempyo arts
- In the news: Shoso-in and Emperor Shomu
- Music of the Nara Period
- The construction of the colossal and cosmic Buddha of Nara
- The discovery of a multitude of multi-purpose mokkan
- Todai-ji and Emperor Shomu’s “Three Treasures”
- Treasures of the world’s oldest and most visited museum – the Shosoin
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