Websites: Yamato Period Wikipedia article on the Yamato period Wikipedia article Kojiki, Nihongi and Sacred Shinto Texts Imperial Household Agency kunaicho.go.jp/eindexList of Emperors of Japan Buddhism and Prince Shotoku Essay on the Japanese Missions to Tang China. Due to the keen cooperation required to construct irrigation ditches and to work the fields and bring in the harvests, relationships, ranks, and rules within the community became established.” During the period, the Kofun people also extensively reclaimed wasteland or developed wet marshes as agricultural land. They worked rice fields with good drainage and with immigrant technology, built irrigation facilities that had become the norm. “People made their living by cultivating rice but to elevate the lean times during late winter, they planted other crops and also hunted and fished. Kings and chiefs began to live in buildings with grand palatial features, showing off their status. Their homes had ritual altars within them. They also began to set their homes apart from those of the commonfolk, surrounded them with ditches and fences. “Houses of powerful clansmen and village leaders were considerably grander and were sometimes constructed using architectural techniques for building raised storehouses. Some of the homes were no longer pit houses or subterranean, but were built above ground and others had wooden walls and wooden boarding over the floors. Most houses had one built along the wall, that helped improve air quality within the home. “Many of the common people still lived in thatched pit houses, little changed from the prehistoric Jomon times, with one improvement, the kamado stove. Clay figurines suggest that in higher society, the men wore vest-like garments and trousers that resemble the modern-day Japanese hakama, and that the women wore vest-like garments and a skirt (called a “mo“). Edited by KOBAYASHI Tatsuo　Handbook of Jomon Pottery　UM Promotion Co.,Ltd.Aileen Kawagoe wrote in Heritage of Japan: There are no written records to tell us how the people of the Kofun Period lived, but from the many haniwa clay figurines and earthenware, as well as tumuli paintings, historians and archaeologists have been able to piece together details about how people of the Kofun Period lived. Ishikawa Society of Archaeological Studies

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