Question
The Korean Confucian scholar Ajiki was deified after his death and worshipped in a Shinto shrine at Toyosato-cho, having spearheaded the breeding of horses in Japan during this period. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this period in which many Imaki no Tehito, or “Recently Arrived Skilled Artisans,” began bringing technologies to Japan. This earlier part of the Yamato period is named for a type of megalithic tomb.
ANSWER: Kofun period [or Kofun jidai; prompt on Yamato until read]
[10e] After Goguryeo (“go-GOOR-yuh”) sacked a site in 400 AD, Yamato elites relied on the Toraijin (“toh-RYE-jin”), immigrants to Yamato Japan, for this metal used in weapons and horse gear. This metal also names the period that follows the Bronze Age.
ANSWER: iron [or tetsu or tiě; accept Iron Age; reject “steel”]
[10h] Ichimura Kunio noted how innovations of the Toraijin facilitated the embassy of the “Five Kings of” this place to China in the 5th century. The Shānhǎi jīng provides one of the earliest uses of this early ethnonym for Japan.
ANSWER: Wa [or wō; accept Five Kings of Wa]
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