Horse-riding people theory

Japanese: 騎馬民族説 - きばみんぞくせつ

This theory posits that the founders of the unified Japanese state were a Northeast Asian horse-riding people who migrated from the Asian continent. Published by archaeologist Egami Hajime in 1948, this theory states that in the early 4th century, a group of horse-riding peoples led by the Emperor family invaded Kyushu via the Korean Peninsula, and established a powerful royal authority in the Kinai region at the end of the 4th century or the beginning of the 5th century. The theory cites the fact that the Early Kofun Culture and the Late Kofun Culture are fundamentally different cultures, that the Late Kofun Culture had a strong horse-riding people character, and documents such as the Eastern Barbarians section of the Old Book of Tang as evidence, but there are many opposing theories.

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Japanese:

日本の統一国家の建設者をアジア大陸から渡来した北東アジア系の騎馬民族とする説。1948年考古学者江上波夫が発表したもので，４世紀初めに天皇氏を中心とする騎馬民族の一派が朝鮮半島を経て九州に侵入，４世紀末か５世紀初めに畿内に強大な王権を確立したという。前期古墳文化と後期古墳文化は根本的に異質な文化であること，後期古墳文化に騎馬民族的性格が濃厚であることなどのほか，《旧唐書(くとうじょ)》東夷伝などの文献を論拠にあげているが，反対説も多い。

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