Alphonsus Chong's Personal Wiki

• Origins hazy - Cosmogonic and Theogonic aspects
• Physical artifacts provide most useful information about origin
• Written record of earliest origins embelished for a variety of reasons
• People - mixed - from South, mainland, Ural-Altaic
• 'Wa' - Chinese name for Japan
• Female leaders
• Initial close relationship with Korea/ China
• Shintoism - animistic
• Chinese writing –> provide means for Japan/Korea to document their history etc.

Sansom, G. B. (2015). Japan: A short cultural history. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1568989

• 2020-09-10 Created in doukuwiki