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32-611: Iwakura may refer to: Locations [ edit ] Iwakura, Aichi , a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan Mount Iwakura , a mountain in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan Objects [ edit ] Iwakura rock , a sacred rock believed to contain a Shinto kami Dams [ edit ] Iwakura Dam , a dam in Urugi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan Iwakura-ike Dam ,

64-614: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 15 members. The city contributes one member to the Aichi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Aichi District 10 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Iwakura City Hall has been recognized as one of the most prestigious local government organizations in Aichi prefecture. Iwakura

96-590: A Japanese diplomatic mission See also [ edit ] Iwakura Station (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Iwakura . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iwakura&oldid=1241095157 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

128-572: A climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Iwakura is 15.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1758 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.2 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.3 °C. Per Japanese census data,

160-604: A dam in Kochi Prefecture, Japan People [ edit ] Iwakura Tomomi (1825–1883), Japanese politician Kazuya Iwakura (born 1985) Japanese football player Mitsue Iwakura (born 1984), Japanese footballer Characters [ edit ] Lain Iwakura , the protagonist of the anime television series Serial Experiments Lain Mai Iwakura, the protagonist of the television series Maiagare! Other uses [ edit ] Iwakura Mission ,

192-546: A date up to 500 years earlier, between ca. 1000 BC and 800 BC. During this period, Japan largely transitioned to a more settled, agricultural society, adopting methods of farming and crop production that were introduced to the country (initially in the Kyūshū region) from Korea. The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi Period is found on northern Kyūshū, though that is still debated. Yayoi culture quickly spread to

224-514: Is always distributed in both English and Portuguese. Iwakura has an education system which promotes foreign language and cultures. [REDACTED] Media related to Iwakura, Aichi at Wikimedia Commons Yayoi period The Yayoi period ( 弥生 時代 , Yayoi jidai ) started in the late Neolithic period in Japan , continued through the Bronze Age , and towards its end crossed into

256-475: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Iwakura, Aichi Iwakura is located in the Nōbi Plain region of northwest region of Aichi Prefecture , in the center of former Owari Province . The beautiful Gojō River flows through the city, which, despite its inland location, has an elevation of only eight to twelve meters above sea level. The city has

288-621: The Records of the Three Kingdoms compiled by the 3rd-century scholar Chen Shou . Early Chinese historians described Wo as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities rather than the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the 8th-century work Nihon Shoki , a partly mythical, partly historical account of Japan which dates the foundation of the country at 660 BC. Archaeological evidence also suggests that frequent conflicts between settlements or statelets broke out in

320-570: The Edo period Tokugawa shogunate . With the establishment of the modern municipalities system after the start of the Meiji period , the village of Iwakura was established within Niwa District , Aichi Prefecture in 1889. It was raised to town status in 1892, and expanded through merger with three neighboring villages in 1906. Iwakura was elevated to city status on December 1, 1971. Iwakura has

352-539: The Iron Age . Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi. The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 3rd centuries BC. The period is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era in

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384-1041: The Chinese court of the Kingdom of Wei . When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Taibo of Wu , a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China. For many years, the location of Yamataikoku and the identity of Queen Himiko have been subject of research. Two possible sites, Yoshinogari in Saga Prefecture and Makimuku in Nara Prefecture have been suggested. Recent archaeological research in Makimuku suggests that Yamataikoku

416-664: The Jōmon period and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern Kyūshū to northern Honshū . Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of farmers (Yayoi people) from the Korean Peninsula to Japan overwhelmed and mixed with the native predominantly hunter-gatherer population ( Jōmon ). The Yayoi period is, generally, accepted to date from circa 300 BC to 300 AD. However, although highly controversial, radiocarbon evidence, from organic samples attached to pottery shards, may suggest

448-620: The Korean peninsula around 1500 BC and was brought to the Japanese archipelago by Yayoi wet-rice farmers at some time between 700 and 300 BC. Whitman and Miyamoto associate Japonic as the language family of both Mumun and Yayoi cultures. Several linguists believe that speakers of Koreanic/proto-Koreanic arrived in the Korean Peninsula at some time after the Japonic/proto-Japonic speakers and coexisted with these peoples (i.e.

480-488: The Korean peninsula gains strength because Yayoi culture began on the north coast of Kyūshū, where Japan is closest to Korea. Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, and food preservation were discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea. However, some scholars argue that the rapid increase of roughly four million people in Japan between the Jōmon and Yayoi periods cannot be explained by migration alone. They attribute

512-700: The Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains. Further links to the Korean Peninsula have been discovered, and several researchers have reported discoveries/evidence that strongly link the Yayoi culture to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Mark J. Hudson has cited archaeological evidence that included "bounded paddy fields, new types of polished stone tools, wooden farming implements, iron tools, weaving technology, ceramic storage jars, exterior bonding of clay coils in pottery fabrication, ditched settlements , domesticated pigs, and jawbone rituals". The migrant transfusion from

544-619: The Yayoi population increased, the society became more stratified and complex. They wove textiles , lived in permanent farming villages, and constructed buildings with wood and stone. They also accumulated wealth through land ownership and the storage of grain. Such factors promoted the development of distinct social classes. Contemporary Chinese sources described the people as having tattoos and other bodily markings which indicated differences in social status. Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects. That

576-604: The descendants of both the Mumun and Yayoi cultures) and possibly assimilated them. Both Koreanic and Japonic had prolonged influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families. Most linguists and archaeologists agree that the Japonic language family was introduced to and spread through the archipelago during the Yayoi period. The earliest written records about people in Japan are from Chinese sources from this period. Wo ,

608-413: The increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice. It is quite likely that rice cultivation and its subsequent deification allowed for a slow and gradual population increase. Regardless, there is archaeological evidence that supports the idea that there was an influx of farmers from the continent to Japan that absorbed or overwhelmed

640-609: The indigenous population, and between new cultural influences and existing practices. Chinese influence was obvious in the bronze and copper weapons, dōkyō , dōtaku , as well as irrigated paddy rice cultivation. Three major symbols of Yayoi culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone. Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science , compared Yayoi remains found in Japan's Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province and found many similarities between

672-531: The late 19th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new Yayoi pottery styles, improved carpentry and architecture, and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in paddy fields . A hierarchical social class structure dates from this period and has its origin in China. Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced from China via Korea to Japan in this period. The Yayoi followed

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704-528: The main island of Honshū , mixing with native Jōmon culture. The name Yayoi is borrowed from a location in Tokyo , where pottery of the Yayoi period was first found. Yayoi pottery was simply decorated and produced, using the same coiling technique previously used in Jōmon pottery. Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells ( dōtaku ), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people began using iron agricultural tools and weapons. As

736-447: The native hunter-gatherer population. Some pieces of Yayoi pottery clearly show the influence of Jōmon ceramics. In addition, the Yayoi lived in the same type of pit or circular dwelling as that of the Jōmon. Other examples of commonality are chipped stone tools for hunting, bone tools for fishing, shells in bracelet construction, and lacquer decoration for vessels and accessories. According to several linguists, Japonic or proto-Japonic

768-439: The northern part of Kyūshū. Contacts between fishing communities on this coast and the southern coast of Korea date from the Jōmon period, as witnessed by the exchange of trade items such as fishhooks and obsidian. During the Yayoi period, cultural features from Korea and China arrived in this area at various times over several centuries, and later spread to the south and east. This was a period of mixture between immigrants and

800-626: The other hand, averaged 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) taller, with shallow-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. By the Kofun period , almost all skeletons excavated in Japan except those of the Ainu are of the Yayoi type with some having small Jōmon admixture, resembling those of modern-day Japanese. The origin of Yayoi culture and the Yayoi people has long been debated. The earliest archaeological sites are Itazuke or Nabata in

832-898: The period. Many excavated settlements were moated or built at the tops of hills. Headless human skeletons discovered in Yoshinogari site are regarded as typical examples of finds from the period. In the coastal area of the Inland Sea , stone arrowheads are often found among funerary objects. Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw fish, vegetables, and rice served on bamboo and wooden trays, clapped their hands in worship (something still done in Shinto shrines today), and built earthen-grave mounds. They also maintained vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, and observed mourning. Society

864-616: The population of Iwakura has been growing over the past 70 years. The area of modern Iwakura was settled in the Jōmon period and Yayoi period and was dominated by shōen feudal estates during the Heian and Kamakura periods . During the Sengoku period , it was ruled by a branch of the Oda clan . The area is also the ancestral home of the Yamauchi clan , who dominated Tosa Province under

896-728: The pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; the Na state of Wo received a golden seal from the Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han dynasty . This event was recorded in the Book of the Later Han compiled by Fan Ye in the 5th century. The seal itself was discovered in northern Kyūshū in the 18th century. Wo was also mentioned in 257 in the Wei zhi , a section of

928-457: Was characterised by violent struggles. The Wei Zhi ( Chinese : 魏志 ), which is part of the Records of the three Kingdoms, first mentions Yamataikoku and Queen Himiko in the 3rd century. According to the record, Himiko assumed the throne of Wa, as a spiritual leader, after a major civil war . Her younger brother was in charge of the affairs of state, including diplomatic relations with

960-661: Was made possible by the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice agriculture from the Yangtze estuary in southern China via the Ryukyu Islands or Korean Peninsula . Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable. The Jōmon tended to be shorter, with relatively longer forearms and lower legs, more deep-set eyes, shorter and wider faces, and much more pronounced facial topography. They also have strikingly raised brow ridges, noses, and nose bridges. Yayoi people, on

992-525: Was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula. These Peninsular Japonic languages, now extinct, were eventually replaced by Koreanic languages . Similarly Whitman suggests that the Yayoi are not related to the proto-Koreans but that they (the Yayoi) were present on the Korean peninsula during the Mumun pottery period . According to him and several other researchers, Japonic/proto-Japonic arrived in

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1024-531: Was traditionally noted for sericulture . Currently, agriculture and light manufacturing dominate the local economy. Ishizuka Glass Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Iwakura. Iwakura has five public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the city government and one public high school operated by the Aichi Prefectural Board of Education. There are a large number of residents in Iwakura from Brazil and city hall public information

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