Sea Road - Kaijo no Michi

Japanese: 海上の道 - かいじょうのみち
Sea Road - Kaijo no Michi

This theory states that the Japanese came from the south on the tidal currents, and was put forward in a book of the same name by Yanagita Kunio. Cowry shells are distributed in areas where the Kuroshio Current reaches, with Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures on the Pacific coast and Toyama prefecture on the Sea of ​​Japan side as the northern limit. Copper coins became common during the time of the First Emperor of Qin in China, but before that cowry shells were the most valuable commodity. The theory goes that people must have traveled in search of cowry shells, using small boats to navigate around islands and shorelines, assisted by strong winds blowing inland. The core of Yanagita Kunio's theory is that they brought rice seeds from the continent with them. Although archaeological verification is insufficient, this theory is considered one way of predicting the route of the Japanese people's arrival when explaining the southern elements of Japanese culture.

[Noboru Miyata]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

日本人は南方から潮流にのって渡来したとする学説で、柳田国男(やなぎたくにお)の同名の書によって唱えられた。とくに黒潮の及ぶ範囲で、太平洋岸は福島・茨城県あたり、日本海側は富山県あたりを北限とする地域に、タカラガイが分布している。中国の秦(しん)の始皇帝の段階に、銅貨が通用するようになったがそれ以前はタカラガイが最高の財貨であった。そこで人々は、陸に向かって吹く強風に助けられて、島や磯(いそ)伝いに小舟を操り、タカラガイを求めて渡来したのだろうという考え方である。そのおり大陸から稲の種子を携えてきたというのが柳田国男説の骨子でもあった。考古学上の検証は不十分であるが、日本文化の南方的要素を説明する場合に、日本人渡来の道筋を予想させる一つの考え方とされている。

[宮田 登]

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