Reading the Treatise on the People of the Wa in the Chronicle of the Kingdom of Wei: The World's Earliest Written Text on Japan by Arikyo Saeiki
Reading the Treatise on the People of the Wa in the Chronicle of the Kingdom of Wei: The World's Earliest Written Text on Japan

Arikyo Saeiki

Reading the Treatise on the People of the Wa in the Chronicle of the Kingdom of Wei: The World's Earliest Written Text on Japan

Arikyo Saeiki with Joshua A. Fogel (Translator)

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The Treatise on the People of Wa, which appears in the Chronicle of Wei, is the oldest written text that we have about that place now known as Japan. Just over 2,000 characters in length, it was to set the tone for subsequent writing on Japan for ...

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