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This paper aims to challenge the traditional understanding that the Northern Kyushu region was a peripheral player in the binary opposition to the central region of Kinai in the formative stages of the Japanese state. Based on a variety of archaeological and textual data and taking into consideration the historical circumstances of Japan’s relation to the continent, it is argued that the norther part of Kyushu indisputably played a key role in the history of the Japanese state. Given its strategically beneficial geographic position within the Japanese archipelago, it is claimed that in the Yayoi and Kofun periods the region of Northern Kyushu was, in terms of long-term development of social, economic,technological and power status, on par with the region of Kinai which was the base of the Yamato polity – future ruler of all Japan. |
