*: In the Yayoi Period, the location of the Kakogawa River running through the center area of the Harima region made the area prosperous.

Also by the 1st century AD, the Chinese made sea contacts with Yayoi period Japan, inhabited by what the Chinese termed as the Wa people.

Yayoi chiefs, in some parts of Kyūshū, appear to have sponsored, and politically manipulated, trade in bronze and other prestige objects.

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

The Yayoi brought wet-rice farming and advanced bronze and iron technology to Japan.

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 ").

Simple stick figures and geometric designs can be found on Jōmon period pottery and Yayoi period ( 300 BC – 300 AD ) dotaku bronze bells.

Simple figural representations, as well as botanical, architectural, and geometric designs are found on Jōmon period pottery and Yayoi period ( 300 BC – 300 AD ) dotaku bronze bells.

In the Yayoi period, artisans produced mirrors, spears, and ceremonial bells known as dōtaku.

Such bells date to the Yayoi period of Japanese history, approximately 2000 years ago.

A Yayoi period Dōtaku bell, 3rd century AD.

A common ancestor of Japanese and Ryukyuan languages or dialects is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from either continental Asia or nearby Pacific islands ( or both ) sometime in the early-to mid-2nd century BC ( the Yayoi period ), replacing the language ( s ) of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language.

During the Yayoi period ( 300 BC – 300 AD ), the sea receded further almost to today's coastline, and the economy shifted radically from hunting and fishing to farming.

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.

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.

While archaeological artifacts show that the Iyo area has been settled since at least as far back as the Yayoi period ( 300 BC to 250 AD ), the origins of the present city of Iyo can be traced back to the year 1635, when the Matsuyama han ceded the territory including Iyo to the Ōzu han.

Early Chinese dynastic histories chronicle tributary relations between Queen Himiko and the Cao Wei Kingdom ( 220-265 ), and record that the Yayoi period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kings of Wa.

Yayoi Kusama said about her 1954 painting titled Flower ( D. S. P. S ),

Major exhibitions of her work include Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan ( 1987 ); Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York ( 1989 ); " Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 – 1969 ", LACMA, 1998 ( traveling to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ), 1998 – 99 ; Le Consortium, Dijon, 2000 ( traveled to Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris ; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark ; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse ; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ; and Artsonje Center, Seoul, 2001 – 2003 ); " KUSAMATRIX ", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 ( traveling to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido ); " Eternity – Modernity ", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ( touring Japan ), 2004 – 2005 ; and " The Mirrored Years ", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008 ( traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009 ).

Her grandmother once tried to arrange a marriage for Yayoi to another man ( due in part to Mitsuki Sanada's meddling ), but her affection for Kazuki was too deep for her to even pay attention to the would-be suitor.

Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, Atelier Bow-Wow, Guy Ben-Ner, Manfredi Beninati, David Blandy, U-Ram Choe, Adam Cvijanovic, Nancy Davenport, Diller & Scofidio + Renfro, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Adrian Ghenie, Rodney Graham, Tue Greenfort, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Alison Jackson, Jesper Just, Otto Karvonen, Yayoi Kusama, Ulf Langheinrich ( Granular-Synthesis ), Luisa Lambri, Gabriel Lester, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Yoko Ono, Ged Quinn, Khalil Rabah, The Royal Art Lodge, Sarah Sze, Tomas Saraceno, Richard Woods.

The school nurse and miko ( meaning priestess ), Yayoi can be calm and spiritual unless she feels Chitose is in danger, when she may put her sword fighting skills to work.

* 2005 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho ( Domestic G2 ), Nakayama Turf 2000m

By the 1st century AD, Yayoi farmers began using iron agricultural tools and weapons.

Yves Klein in France, and in New York City, Carolee Schneemann, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman and Yoko Ono and in Germany Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik were pioneers of performance-based works of art.

The Jōmon is succeeded by the Yayoi period.

The Yayoi culture was a clan based culture that lived in compounds with a defined leader who was the chief and head priest.

Artist's who contributed to the volume include: Tammy Ohta, Yayoi Takeda, Kahiro Okuya, Daimoon Tennyo, Kazumi Takahashi, Masaki Sano, and Kyo Watanabe.

Yayoi period.

* c. 500 BC — Yayoi period starts in Ancient Japan.

Yayoi period in Japanese islands.

Chinese coins from the 1st century AD have been found in Yayoi period archaeological sites.

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

In China, Korea and Japan, carp farming took place as early as the Yayoi Period ( c. 300 BC – 300 AD ).

The work of Yayoi Kusama contributed to the development of pop art itself and influenced many other artists, including Andy Warhol.

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.

The first images picturing the distinct Japanese asymmetrical longbow are from the Yayoi period ( ca.

The Jōmon is succeeded by the Yayoi period outside Hokkaido, where the Jōmon is succeeded by the Zoku-Jōmon ( post-Jōmon ) period.

Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new pottery styles and the start of an intensive rice agriculture in paddy fields.

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

A Yayoi jar, 1st-3rd century, excavated in Kugahara, Ōta, Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum.

The earliest archaeological evidence of the Yayoi is found on northern Kyūshū, though this is still debated.

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

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