Location & Geography
This country is a chain of islands in eastern Asia, also called this geographical term.
What is an archipelago?
In the Jomon era, important decisions were made by this whole group rather than a king.
What is the whole village agreeing together?
Nomi no Sukune is honored today as the “God” of this Japanese sport.
What is sumo?
The Yayoi economy was based on agriculture, especially this main grain.
What is rice?
Most Yayoi people lived in these semi-underground houses.
What are pit houses?
Japan lies to the east of these two Asian countries that influenced Yayoi culture.
What are China and Korea?
Wet-rice farming helped villages become small fortified provinces with this name.
What are Kuni?
Nomi no Sukune was a powerful wrestler from this region of Japan.
What is the Izumo region?
Rice could be used not just as food but in this way to obtain other goods and services.
What is as a form of exchange (barter)?
Yayoi communities also used these raised buildings to keep food and goods off the ground.
What are elevated storage buildings?
Most people entered Yayoi Japan through this northern region of Kyushu.
What is northern Kyushu?
These leaders controlled the Kuni and owned the land and water.
Who are chieftains?
In 23 BCE, the Emperor ordered a fight between Nomi no Sukune and this man, which became the first recorded sumo match.
Who is Taima no Kehaya?
In Yayoi Japan, this type of ownership indicated a person’s wealth.
What is land ownership?
Yayoi pottery designs were mostly this style, with simple decoration.
What are plain and functional designs with basic patterns?
Most Yayoi settlements formed in these two types of areas because farmland was limited.
What are coastal plains and river valleys?
In Yayoi society, laws were closely tied to this aspect of life, making crime a spiritual impurity.
What is religion?
Around 3 CE, Nomi no Sukune suggested using these clay figures instead of human sacrifices around burial mounds.
What are clay haniwa?
Increased contact with other cultures led the Yayoi to adopt this metalworking skill and this cloth-making skill.
What are bronze casting and weaving techniques?
Yayoi art showed this kind of balanced design and was influenced by these two nearby cultures.
What is symmetrical design, influenced by China and Korea?
Name two natural dangers Japan faces as part of the Ring of Fire
What are any two of: earthquakes, volcanoes, or typhoons?
Crime was seen as a spiritual impurity with this name, and the goal of law was ritual purification, not punishment.
What is Tsumi?
After being made head of the potters’ guild, Nomi received this title, and his family later became this clan.
What is the title Haji, and the Sugawara clan?
The largest Yayoi settlement found, covering about 200 acres and acting as a trading center, had this name.
What is Asahi?
These bronze bells, whose exact purpose is unknown and which cannot ring like real bells, were likely used in rituals.
What are dōtaku?