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縄文時代の終わりと弥生時代

The End of the Jōmon Period

Toward the end of the Jōmon period, a new culture came to Japan from the continent.

That was rice cultivation, growing rice in paddy fields.

Rice cultivation began first in northern Kyushu and gradually spread eastward.

Rice was grown in paddy fields (suiden) into which water had been brought.

People and technology crossed the sea from the continent.

These people are called toraijin, or immigrants.

The period in which rice cultivation spread is called the Yayoi period.

In the Yayoi period, metal tools made of bronze and iron also began to be used.

Yayoi pottery was thinner and harder than Jōmon pottery.

People came to store rice, and gaps between rich and poor and conflicts between villages arose.

It is not that the Jōmon people suddenly disappeared.

The Jōmon people and the immigrants gradually mixed together and built a new way of life.

In Hokkaido, rice cultivation did not spread and the Jōmon way of life continued for a long time.

This is called the Epi-Jōmon period.

The good things of the Jōmon remain in Japanese culture today as well.

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