Yamatai
Sign in to saveYamatai or Yamatai-koku is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period The Chinese text Records of the Three Kingdoms first recorded the name as () or () (using reconstructed Eastern Han Chinese pronunciations) followed by the character for "country", describing the place as the domain of Priest-Queen (died ). Generations of Japanese historians, linguists, and archeologists have debated where Yamatai was located and whether it was related to the later .
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Yamatai
- Country.common_name
- Yamatai
- Country.empire
- Japan
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.year_start
- c. 1st century
- Country.year_end
- c. 3rd century
- Country.capital
- Yamato (Modern-day part of Nara Prefecture)
- Country.common_languages
- Proto-Japonic
- Country.leader1
- Queen Himiko
- Country.leader2
- Unknown king
- Country.leader3
- Queen Toyo
- Country.leader4
- Queen (disputed)
- Country.year_leader1
- c. 180–c. 248 AD
- Country.year_leader2
- c. 248 AD
- Country.year_leader3
- c. 248–? AD
- Country.year_leader4
- ?–367
- Country.title_leader
- King/Queen
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Yamatai or Yamatai-koku is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period The Chinese text Records of the Three Kingdoms first recorded the name as () or () (using reconstructed Eastern Han Chinese pronunciations) followed by the character for "country", describing the place as the domain of Priest-Queen (died ). Generations of Japanese historians, linguists, and archeologists have debated where Yamatai was located and whether it was related to the later .
==Chinese texts== thumb|Text of the Wei Zhi (ca. 297) The oldest accounts of Yamatai are found in the official Chinese dynastic Twenty-Four Histories for the 1st- and 2nd-century Eastern Han dynasty, the 3rd-century Wei kingdom, and the 6th-century Sui dynasty.