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means the month of March.
It can also refer to
- Yayoi (given name), a Japanese female given name
- Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist and writer
- Yayoi period, a pre-historical era in Japan
- Yayoi, Ōita, a town in Japan
- Yayoi, Tokyo, an area of Tokyo
- Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925), a Mutsuki-class destroyers
- Yayoi Kaikei - A Japanese accounting software.
Usage examples of "yayoi".
More recently, however, scholars have come to believe that the shift from Jomon to Yayoi was essentially cultural: that is, the Jomon people became the Yayoi people under influences from China.
Chapter 3 for more remarks about the possible relationship between the Jomon and Yayoi peoples.
But probably the most important use to which metal was put, as we shall see, was the making of weapons, which brought a sharp increase in warfare and the consolidation of control over ever larger territorial units in late Yayoi times.
The serene and elegant appearance of the new Yayoi pottery suggests that the civilizing influences that brought new technology to Japan in this age also advanced the mentality of its people.
But perhaps the most striking difference between the two kinds of pottery is that in Jomon the stress is on decoration, and in Yayoi it is on form.
Many Yayoi pieces have no decoration at all, whereas others have bands of thinly incised geometric designs that contrast sharply in their simplicity with the typically florid patterning of Jomon pottery.
Japan, whose real origins lie in the Yayoi period, is of great importance in cultural history not only because of its inherent artistic worth but also because it is based on some of the most enduring values in the Japanese aesthetic tradition.
All of these new pottery forms emerged to meet the needs of the agricultural society that evolved in Japan during the Yayoi period.
Japanese preference, which we observed in Yayoi pottery, for naturalness in the use of materials and for plain, uncluttered forms.
One scholar, for example, estimates that several million people entered Japan during the thousand years following commencement of the Yayoi period.