Recorded Japanese history begins in approximately A.D. 400, when the Yamato clan, eventually based in Kyoto, managed to gain control of other family groups in central and western Japan. Contact with Korea introduced Buddhism to Japan at about this time.
According to mythology, Japan's ancient history is tied to the sun goddess, Amaterasu, who sent one of her descendants to the island of Kyushu to unify the people. Legend gives way to the fact in the fourth century when the country was unified under the Yamato Dynasty, who established a court in Nara.
At the core of unification was Shintoism, a religion indigenous to Japan and marked by its worship of nature, ancestors, and ancient national heroes. At one time, Shintoism also conferred divine status to the Emperor. Two of Japan's most revered shrines said to have been built in the age of the gods, are the Ise Grand Shrines at Ise and Izumo Taisha Shrine near Matsue.
The banner of Japan is formally called Nisshoki known as Hinomaru signifying "sun plate". It has a plain white rectangular loaded with a red circle on the inside. The red circle speaks of the sun. This banner is known as the sun-circle flag and was known as the default national banner even in the witness of a law with respect to a national banner was set up.
The Japanese national flag was designated by their constitution on August 13, 1999. The brief history of the flag has its origin in two edicts of the Daij?-kan in the early Meiji Era. The Daij?-kan is a government organization who decreed two proclamations stating that the sun-disc flag is to be used as a flag for merchant ships and the flag used by the navy.
Japan has been associated with the symbol of the sun since at least the seventh century, and although the exact origin of the flag is not known, most scholars believe it is related to the country's nickname. Other theories include a representation of the sun goddess Amaterasu, from which Japan's Imperial family is said to have descended. A sun flag was used by shogun in the thirteenth century when the Japanese fought the invasion of the Mongolians.
According to mythology, Japan's ancient history is tied to the sun goddess, Amaterasu, who sent one of her descendants to the island of Kyushu to unify the people. Legend gives way to the fact in the fourth century when the country was unified under the Yamato Dynasty, who established a court in Nara.
At the core of unification was Shintoism, a religion indigenous to Japan and marked by its worship of nature, ancestors, and ancient national heroes. At one time, Shintoism also conferred divine status to the Emperor. Two of Japan's most revered shrines said to have been built in the age of the gods, are the Ise Grand Shrines at Ise and Izumo Taisha Shrine near Matsue.
The banner of Japan is formally called Nisshoki known as Hinomaru signifying "sun plate". It has a plain white rectangular loaded with a red circle on the inside. The red circle speaks of the sun. This banner is known as the sun-circle flag and was known as the default national banner even in the witness of a law with respect to a national banner was set up.
The Japanese national flag was designated by their constitution on August 13, 1999. The brief history of the flag has its origin in two edicts of the Daij?-kan in the early Meiji Era. The Daij?-kan is a government organization who decreed two proclamations stating that the sun-disc flag is to be used as a flag for merchant ships and the flag used by the navy.
Japan has been associated with the symbol of the sun since at least the seventh century, and although the exact origin of the flag is not known, most scholars believe it is related to the country's nickname. Other theories include a representation of the sun goddess Amaterasu, from which Japan's Imperial family is said to have descended. A sun flag was used by shogun in the thirteenth century when the Japanese fought the invasion of the Mongolians.
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