The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period ( 14, 000 – 300 BC ) and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern Kyūshū to northern Honshū.

Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū mixing with native Jōmon culture.

The origin of Yayoi culture has long been debated.

Three major symbols of the Yayoi culture are the bronze mirror, the bronze sword, and the royal seal stone.

" This assumption also gains strength due to the fact that Yayoi culture began on the north coast of Kyūshū, where Japan is closest to Korea.

The Emishi were a mix of both Ainoid and types of people scholars have called " Kofun people " who were not a separate race or ethnic group, but were a mixture of both native Jōmon and the more recent groups identified with the Yayoi culture.

Burial sites on Tanegashima, namely the Yokomine and Hirota sites, attest to a uniquely well-developed Yayoi period culture there living at the end of the 4th century AD.

The rice-growing, politically fragmented Yayoi culture either evolved into the culture characterized by the more centralized, patriarchal, militaristic Kofun period, or came to be dominated and eventually overrun by Yamato society.

Okinawa midden culture or shell heap culture is divided into the early shell heap period corresponding to the Jomon age of Japan and the latter shell heap period corresponding to the Yayoi period of Japan.

Culture of China was first mostly influential, starting with the development of the Yayoi culture from around 300BC.

The long, unique asymmetrical bow style with the grip below the center emerged under the Yayoi culture ( 300 BC – 300 AD ) Bows became the symbol of authority and power.

Artifacts of the culture are found throughout southern Korea and were also exported to the Yayoi people of Kyūshū, Japan.

Yayoi pottery was simply decorated, and produced on a potter's wheel, as opposed to Jōmon pottery, which was produced by hand.

DNA tests conducted in 1999 support the theory that the origin of the Yayoi people was an area south of the Yangtze.

Ise Shrine is said to have been established during the Yayoi period, and in the 7th century the Saikū Imperial Residence was built in what is now Meiwa Town to serve as both a residence and administrative centre for the Saiō, an Imperial Princess who served as High Priestess of Ise Shrine.

But after the end of World War II, Kotondo Hasebe and Hisashi Suzuki claimed that the origin of Japanese people was not the newcomers in the Yayoi period ( 300 BCE – 300 CE ) but the people in the Jōmon period.

Hanihara believed that there was a second wave of immigrants, from northeast Asia to Japan from the Yayoi period.

This dovetails nicely with the " transformation " theory that native Jōmon peoples changed gradually with the infusion of Yayoi immigrants into the Tōhoku rather than the " replacement " theory which posits that one population ( Jōmon ) was replaced by another ( Yayoi ).

The next wave of immigrants was the Yayoi people, named for the distict in Tokyo where remnants of their settlements first were found.

: Two years in the past, when Yayoi was her classmate, she arranged an accident to ensure her own position at the top of the class.

Yayoi was hospitalized and traumatized, and left Stellvia for a time.

Due to Yayoi covering up the truth of the earlier incident, Ayaka was not expelled from Stellvia, but was suspended for a time.

She has performed with Yoko Kanno, Luna Sea, ZABADAK, Samply Red ( unrelated to Simply Red ), Yayoi Yula, and was once in a group called Marsh-Mallow.

Mobara was settled from the earliest times, as evidenced by archaeological sites and shell mounds dating from the Jōmon period and Yayoi periods.

In Japanese historical and archeological periodization, the 2nd-3rd century era of Queen Himiko was between late Yayoi period and early Kofun period.

There at the Hakodate Yayoi Elementary School, he met Chieko Tachibana, who he was instantly awestruck by her beauty.

So, it is possible that there were many Yayoi dialects in the period before Old Japanese emerged, of which the dialect of the warring states that ended up prevailing politically as the Japanese state was unified superseded other early Yayoi languages or dialects.

The area of present-day Higashikushira was first settled by peoples of the Jōmon and Yayoi cultures in the prehistoric period.

On March 3, 2005 Kamiura, along with the towns of Kamae, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Yayoi, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi and Ume, and the villages of Honjō, Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

On March 3, 2005 Honjō, along with the towns of Kamae, Kamiura, Tsurumi, Ume and Yayoi, and the villages of Naokawa and Yonōzu, all from Minamiamabe District, was merged into the expanded city of Saiki.

Yves Klein in France, and Carolee Schneemann, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, and Yoko Ono in New York City were pioneers of performance based works of art.

The linguist J. Marshall Unger suggests, based on linguistic evidence, that Baekje may represent a remnant proto-Japanese or para-Japanese community which stayed behind on the Korean peninsula after the Yayoi migrations but still maintained a conscious connection to the Yayoi people and their descendants.

In addition, the Yayoi lived in the same type of pit or circular dwelling as that of the Jōmon.

Japanese source that conducted a study of the skeletal remains of persons who lived in the Tōhoku region both during the Jōmon and Yayoi periods.

Archeology confirms that indeed during the Yayoi period the most common ( a yorishiro actually housing the enshrined kami ) in the earliest shrines was a nearby mountain peak supplying with its streams water, and therefore life, to the plains below where people lived.

Very little is known about Jin, but it established relations with Han China and exported artifacts to the Yayoi of Japan.

Bashō's private planning for another long journey culminated on May 16, 1689 ( Yayoi 27, Genroku 2 ), when he left Edo with his student and apprentice on a journey to the Northern Provinces of Honshū.

Prototypic for the artform later explicitly labeled " performance art ", were works of artists like Yoko Ono with her Wall piece for orchestra ( 1962 ); Carolee Schneemann with pieces like Meat Joy ( 1964 ); Wolf Vostell with his Happening YOU ( 1964 in New York ); Joseph Beuys with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare ( 1965 ); Yayoi Kusama, with actions such as a naked flag-burning on the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1968 ) and Allan Kaprow in his many Happenings.

Yayoi people, on the other hand, averaged an inch or two taller, with close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses.

Between 1996 and 1999, a team led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's National Science Museum, compared Yayoi remains found in Japan's Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures with those from China's coastal Jiangsu province, and found many similarities between the Yayoi and the Jiangsu remains.

Around 400 – 300 BC, the Yayoi people began to enter the Japanese islands, intermingling with the Jōmon.

Although the islands were already abundant with resources for hunting and dry-rice farming, Yayoi farmers created more productive wet-rice paddy field systems.

Bird motifs from the Yayoi and Kofun periods associating birds with the dead have also been found in several archeological sites.

Though she becomes irritated easily when around people too much, she learns to enjoy spending time with Yayoi, Shipon, Arisa and the others of their group.

Signs of early rice cultivation coinciding with the Yayoi period as well as quantities of Yayoi period pottery and implements have also been found.

Several archeological excavations of Yayoi and Kofun sites in kinki region, have revealed Chinese-style bronze mirrors, called shinju-kyo ( 神獣鏡 " mirror decorated with gods and animals ").