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Post by Bor Chono on Oct 1, 2006 6:16:13 GMT 3
Check this info : www.reconstructinghistory.com/japanese/nara.html Agekubi, with its narrow sleeves, round neckline and auxiliary pants, is believed to be a Northern style, originating among horse riders in the plains, where the Sui originated. |
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Post by Atabeg on Oct 1, 2006 9:58:39 GMT 3
yeah I know I thought it was weird also our member fermez211 know more about it. I got it of his site.
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Post by Bor Chono on Oct 1, 2006 13:53:49 GMT 3
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Post by Atabeg on Oct 1, 2006 15:10:34 GMT 3
well hes got the cheakbones allright
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Post by tengrikut on Oct 5, 2006 13:51:30 GMT 3
hmmm he has a very long face  |
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Post by Bor Chono on Oct 8, 2006 5:06:47 GMT 3
ACCOUNTS OF THE EASTERN BARBARIANS ;D History of the Kingdom of Wei (Wei Chih) 297 AD(Adapted from Tsunoda and Goodrich, "Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories" pp.8-...) The poeple of Wa(=Japan) dwell in the middle of the ocean, on the mountainous islands southeast of (the prefecture of)Tai-fang. They formerly comprised more than one hundred communities. During the Han dynasty, (Wa) envoys appeared at the court ; today, thirty of their communities maintain intercourse with us through envoys and scribes.... New History of the Tang Dynasty (Hsin/Shin Tang Shu) 618-906 AD1.Japan in former times was called Wa-nu(=Wa slaves). It is 24,000 li distant from our capital, situated to the southeast of Silla in the middle of the ocean. 2.In the first year of Hsien-heng (670) an embassy came to the court from Japan to offer congratulations upon the conquest of Koguryo (=one of Korean kingdoms). About this time, the Japanese who had studied Chinese came to dislike the name "Wa" and changed it to "Nippon". According to the words of the Japanese envoy himself, that name was chosen because the country was so close to where the sun rises. Some say (=on the other hand), that Nippon was a small country which had been subjugated by the Wa, and that the latter took over its name. As this envoy was not truthful, doubt still remains.  |
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Post by sharshuvuu on Nov 12, 2009 18:37:07 GMT 3
Roy A. Miller, _Japanese and Other Altaic Languages_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971) presented the case for regarding Japanese as Altaic in origin. The book sparked a lively controversy. Korean can be regarded as Altaic on similar grounds. The issue is whether the undeniable similarities are evidence of a clade (common ancestry) or simply a grade (maybe caused by external influence) relationship. "Macro-Altaic" is Turkic-Mongolian-Tungus *plus* Korean & Japanese; "Micro-Altaic" does not include Korean or Japanese. Some linguists believe in the Macro-Altaic node, others do not.
A case can also be made for a Malayo-Polynesian origin of Japanese; some others have proposed connections with Sino-Tibetan and even with Austronesian and Dravidian.
C. Scott Littleton, who discovered the steppe origins of a major stratum of the Arthurian legends, pursued the same line of research in Japanese culture, and proposed that the cult of the sword in Japan comes from the same source. The cultural features involved here are not specifically Altaic, but belong to a common steppe tradition; the Arthurian connection in England, for example, apparently comes from (Iranian) Sarmatians. The common element is the mounted steppe warrior; in the context of Japanese (pre-)history, however, the work of Littleton and his collaborators is supportive of the Altaic theory.
Sharshuvuu
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Nov 12, 2009 18:58:13 GMT 3
Interesting info.
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