Kofun period

period of Japanese history from 300 to 538

period of Japanese history

thumb|Daisen Kofun, the largest of all kofun, one of many tumuli in the [[Mozu kofungun, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture (5th century)]] are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. Kofun were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th century AD.

thumb|Haniwa Warrior in Keiko Armor|Haniwa warrior in keikō type armor, Ōta, [[Gunma Prefecture, c. 6th century AD. Height: . National Treasure of Japan]] thumbnail|Haniwa figure of a woman, 5th–6th century. Earthenware. Excavation point unknown. This figure is considered to represent a high-ranking woman, possibly a shaman or priestess. The figure is fragmentary: the arms are missing and, like many extant haniwa, it has been reassembled from shards.

right|thumb| dating from Jōmon period to 8th century thumb|right|Magatama from Kofun period（[[Tokyo National Museum）]]

thumb|Tsuchigumo, from Bakemono no e scroll, [[Brigham Young University]] is a historical Japanese derogatory term for renegade local clans, primarily during the Asuka, Nara, and early Heian periods, and also the name for a race of spider-like in Japanese folklore. Alternative names for the historical groups include , and for the mythological Tsuchigumo, and . In the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the name was phonetically spelled with the four kanji (for the four morae tsu-chi-gu-mo). References to "tsuchigumo" appear in the chronicles associated with Emperor Jimmu, Emperor Keiko, and Empress Jingū

Fusang is a mythical world tree or place located far east of China.

were Japanese hereditary noble titles. Their use traces back to ancient times when they began to be used as titles signifying a family's political and social caste.

Sword

historical Japanese state

ancient Japanese hereditary title

5 kings [San (讃), Chin (珍), Sai (濟), Kō (興), Bu (武)] of ancient Japan who sent envoys to China in the 5th century to gain Chinese diplomatic recognition

term for Japanese clan or family name

Ōkimi (, also read as Daiō), or Ame no shita Siroshimesu Ōkimi (, Chi Tenka Daiō), was the title of the head of the Yamato Kingship, or the monarch title of Wakoku (Old Japan). This term was used from the Kofun period through the Asuka period in ancient Japan.

thumb|Mononobe no Arakabi, a government minister and gōzoku of the Yamato period , in Japanese, refers to powerful regional families. In historical context, it can refer to powerful non-royal families regardless of their area of influence, in contrast to the Imperial Family. The most powerful gōzoku families of the Yamato period included the Soga clan, Mononobe clan and Katsuragi clan.

rebellion against the Yamato court that took place in Tsukushi Province, Japan

Japanese iron burial-mound sword

was the name of an ancient title of nobility in the kabane system of Yamato period Japan from the 4th through 6th century AD, before the introduction of the Ritsuryō system. The word is a combination of the kanji for with , a political unit smaller than a province, and the agatanushi ranked below the title of . It is thought that the agatanushi were originally chieftains of small Kofun period tribal states which had been annexed by the Yamato state.

5h-century power struggle for the Japanese throne

thumb|A mural of women in Goguryeo-style clothing on the western wall of the [[Takamatsuzuka Tomb (Kofun), believed to be depicting Toraijins from Goguryeo during the Asuka period.]] Toraijin () refers to the people who migrated to the Japan archipelago from the continent in ancient times, as well as their descendants. Up until the 1960s, these people were commonly called the "Kikajin ()", meaning "naturalized people", but beginning in the 1970s, the term was replaced by "Toraijin", meaning "people who have crossed over" as not all those who came to Japan became naturalized.

type of blue-gray pottery from Japan and Korea

thumb|Sankakuen-shinjūkyō from the Tsubai Ōtsukayama kofun in Yamashiro, Kyoto A is an ancient type of Japanese round bronze mirror decorated with images of gods and animals from Chinese mythology. The obverse side has a polished mirror and the reverse has relief representations of legendary Chinese shén ( "spirit; god"), xiān ( "transcendent; immortal"), and legendary creatures.

463 revolt against the Yamato state

Japanese pottery

The Bemin (部民) was a caste during the Yamato period of ancient Japan. Most of them were farmers, but some had special skills and were known as Shinabe. They paid tribute and performed labor for the powerful families, but unlike servants, they lived a family life. The "bemin system" was a social system in Japan prior to the Taika Reforms. It divided the population into and "", with the bemin being governed by the nobility and the heimin being governed directly by the central government. The bemin were divided into three categories: those governed by the nobility, those governed by the central g

upright=1.3|thumb|alt=|The round end of Goshikizuka Kofun in Kobe covered with restored fukiishi '''''' ( or "roofing stone") were a means of covering burial chambers and burial mounds during the kofun period of Japan (). Stones collected from riverbeds were affixed to the slopes of raised kofun and other burial chambers. They are considered to have descended from forms used in Yayoi-period tumuli. They are common in the early and mid-Kofun periods, but most late Kofun-period tumuli do not have them.

Burial mound in Japan

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