Yayoi period
弥生時代
Movement · period · c. 400 BCE–300
Dates. It begins when wet-rice farming arrived from the continent in northern Kyushu1. That was long dated to the 5th century BCE (Mason: c. 400 BCE; the Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara museums); radiocarbon dates published by the National Museum of Japanese History in 2003 moved it back to about the 9th–8th century BCE2, and Nabunken follows them (ca. 8th century BCE)3. It ends in the mid-3rd century, when the first large keyhole-shaped tombs mark the beginning of the Kofun period4. Mason 2005, pp. 22–23. ↩ Wikipedia, 弥生時代, 「2003年に国立歴史民俗博物館が放射性炭素年代測定により…」. ↩ Nabunken 2022, pp. 29–31. ↩ Wikipedia, 弥生時代, 紀元後3世紀中頃まで, und Wikipedia, 古墳時代, 「前方後円墳の出現を特徴とし…」. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Nabunken 2022: Daniel Borengasser u. a., 付録：時代区分－西暦対応表, in: 英文スタイル・マニュアル：基礎編 / Style Manual for English Texts: General Conventions, 奈良文化財研究所 (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) 2022, S. 29–31. Wikipedia, 古墳時代: Anon., 古墳時代, in: ウィキペディア日本語版, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E5%A2%B3%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3 (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026). Wikipedia, 弥生時代: Anon., 弥生時代, in: ウィキペディア日本語版, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A5%E7%94%9F%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3 (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).