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shakuhachi
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Sydney
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 Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| Ive heard about craftsmen being taken to Japan after Hideyoshi's invasion of the pennisula. Not trying to sound like a broken record, I didnt read that they were forced though. Whatever the case, im sure Hideyoshi made them an offer they couldnt refuse. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| matko wrote: |
Other than pottery, is ther anything else? I am very curious about this. I've heard many claims on both sides of the East/Japan Sea that claim cultural 'thievery'.
Japan vs. Korea fascinates me. I don't claim to be an expert on the matter, so just consider me an interested observer. |
The Japanese often claim to have inherited their culture directly from China, but the truth is that Chinese culture went through Korea on it's way to Japan. The Japanese, for example, don't generally admit that it was Korean scholars who taught them Chinese characters. They're adamant that martial arts came from China directly to Okinawa, but they didn't. Some was taken by force (such as the pottery), but a lot of it came about from the migrations of Koreans to Japan during the three kingdom period (which, I always say, should more accurately be called the four kingdom period). There is the case of the royal tomb that the Japanese decided to open for archealogical study in (I think) the early eighties. They opened, they looked, they close it, and they never published anything -- it was full of Korean artifacts because most of the early aristocracy was of Korean descent. Relatively recently the emporer actually admitted to having Korean in his background.
Anyway, tired. Going to bed.
And shak, they were forced. Both China and Korea refered to the Japanese as little barbarians (different translations even say as much as rude dwarfs and other variations) and no self-respecting Chinese or Korean craftsman would willingly, at that time, go to Japan. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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from the way I understand it, Korea is the center of the world, and China and Japan learned from them?
muahahahahaha.. just felt like saying that. time for bed now. |
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