Wajin (ancient people)

Wajin (倭人) is

In general, some of the latter became established on the Japanese archipelago and became the Yayoi people.[1] The word "Wajin" is used as the former.

A description in "Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas: North (海内北経)" mentions "Classic of Mountains and Seas(山海経)", established from China's Warring States period to the Han period, that Wa people belonged to Yan. This is thought to have occurred from the 6th century BC to the 4th century BC.

The first secure appearance of Wajin is in "Treatise on Geography" (地理誌) of the Book of Han (漢書). After that, in "Wei Zhai Wan Tin Den" (魏志倭人伝) (written in 280AD-297AD), their lifestyle, habits and the way of society are described and by cultural commonality such as lifestyle, customs and languages, they are distinguished themselves from "Kanjin (韓人)" and "Dongye (濊人)" people.

Descriptions about Wajin can be found in the Old Book of Tang（945 AD) and the New Book of Tang (1060 AD)

As Baiyue and Wu people

The ethnic concept of "Wa-zoku (倭族)" encompasses a wide range of regions and does not limit Wajin to the Japanese archipelago. According to Kenzaburo's theory,[2] Wa-zoku are Wajin who came to the Japanese archipelago with rice crop, whose ancestor was the same as the Yayoi people.[3] Torigoe says that the original place of the Wa-zoku is Yunnan.[2]

Suwa Haruo considered Wa-zoku to be part of Baiyue (百越).[4]

Another theory states that Wajin are descendants of Wu people. A large paddy ruins in the area was created around 450 BC, the Warring States period, in Kyushu, and a record states that "Wajin [were the] self-named descendants of Zhou". An influential theory states that the Wu people of the Yangtze River area that followed the hydroponic rice cultivation culture, which is also a symbol of Yangtze civilization, drifted to the Japanese archipelago around the 5th century BC, in collaboration with the destruction of the Kingdom of Wu.

Custom

It is frequently pointed out that the characteristics of the Wajin culture are strong in southern elements.

Genetics

The Wajin are thought to have belonged to haplogroup O1b2 (Y-DNA). Mitsuru sakitani says that Haplogroup O1b1 (Y-DNA) and haplogroup O1b2 (Y-DNA) are the carriers of Yangtze civilization. As the Yangtze civilization declined, O1b1 and some O1b2 migrated to the south and were called Baiyue, while the remaining O1b2 crossed westward and northerly, to the Shandong peninsula, the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 澤田洋太郎『日本語形成の謎に迫る』（新泉社、1999年）
  2. 1 2 鳥越憲三郎『原弥生人の渡来 』（角川書店,1982）、『倭族から日本人へ』（弘文堂 ,1985）、『古代朝鮮と倭族』（中公新書,1992）、『倭族トラジャ』（若林弘子との共著、大修館書店,1995）、『弥生文化の源流考』（若林弘子との共著、大修館書店,1998）、『古代中国と倭族』（中公新書,2000）、『中国正史倭人・倭国伝全釈』（中央公論新社,2004）
  3. ↑ 諏訪春雄編『倭族と古代日本』（雄山閣出版,1993）7-8頁
  4. ↑ 諏訪春雄編『倭族と古代日本』（雄山閣出版、1993)また諏訪春雄通信100
  5. ↑ 崎谷満『DNA・考古・言語の学際研究が示す新・日本列島史』（勉誠出版　2009年）　
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