[KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times, May 4, 2011

[Dr. Edward D. Rockstein]

Egami's Kiba minzoku 騎馬民族 theory that the Yamato 大和 state was founded near the end of the 4th century CE by horse-riders whose advent came earlier in that same century, while influential, has been somewhat undercut by archaeological work in SE of the Nara plain which shows that Yamato appears to have emerged well before the end of the 4th C CE and has no appearance of foreign founders such as members of the "Thalassocracy of Wa."  cf., Walter Edwards, "Event & Process in the founding of Japan: The Horserider Theory in Archaeological Perspective," Jr. of Japanese Studies 9, pp. 265-95, inter alia.

Of course, there is also the fact that Korea and Japan are relatively modern constructs and to assign their flags and honors to these ancient entities is modern nationalistic propagandizing. Furthermore, the idea that Japan or Korea are intrinsically each a separate homogeneous entity forged from one people ignores that both have been amalgamated over long histories of inputs from many tribal groups that moved into, or out of, or through their lands. I believe that the development of the Japanese language, moreover, is of equal complexity, Roy Andrew Miller notwithstanding.

Dr. Edward D. Rockstein 

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--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Kwang On Yoo <lovehankook at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Kwang On Yoo <lovehankook at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times, May 4, 2011
To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 10:06 PM

Hello,

For the Origin of  the Founders of Japan, please read following 1975 essay by Dr. Gari Ledyard.


Galloping along with the Horseriders: Looking for the Founders of Japan
Author(s): Gari Ledyard

Source: Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp. 217-254
Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies



Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/132125


Regards,

Kwang-On Yoo








On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Werner Sasse <werner_sasse at hotmail.com> wrote:











Thanks for the link.

Just one note before I start reading the article:
 "new light on the origin of the Japanese people, suggesting that their language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula," (italics mine). We must be careful to distinguish between the origin of a LANGUAGE and the origin of the PEOPLE....







Best, Werner Sasse




Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:37:16 -0500
From: lovehankook at gmail.com
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws






Subject: [KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times, May 4, 2011

Hello,

If I may, I would like to share following article with [KS] subscribers. 








"The finding sheds new light on the origin of the Japanese people, suggesting that their language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula,"







"John B. Whitman, an expert on Japanese linguistics who works at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, in Tokyo, and at Cornell University, called the new finding solid and reasonable.” 







http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?_r=4


Regards,

Kwang-On Yoo


 		 	   		  








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