[KS] New publication of interest

[Jonathan Best]

It is a pleasure to recommend to your attention a recently published book on an important topic in early Northeast Asian history, namely the toraijin 渡來人 (K. toraein) or, perhaps, “the people who crossed over”—in this case, specifically early immigrants to the Japanese archipelago from the Korean peninsula. The book treats peninsular immigrants from the Mumun period (esp. ca. 800-400 BCE) through the Three Kingdoms period (ca. the 4th through 7th centuries) and their major contributions to the developmental transformation of Japanese culture and society. The volume provides a detailed, well-documented scholarly study of the toraijin with an extensive bibliography of relevant publications, archeological and historical, in Korean and Japanese as well as, to the limited extent presently possible, English.

It was co-authored by Song-nai Rhee, C. Melvin Aikens with Gina L. Barnes, and is entitled Archaeology and History of Toraijin—Human, technological, and cultural flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC–AD 600 and was published by Archaeopress Publishing, Ltd., Oxford, U.K. in 2022. ISBN 978-1-78969-966-1 and, for the e-version, ISBN 978-1-78969-966-8. It can be ordered directly from the publisher’s website:www.archeopress.com or, I assume, from your local bookstore, although the latter would likely take longer.

It's a very worthwhile addition to your personal library and/or your institution's,

Jonathan

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