PASTEXPERIENCE HISTORY

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Around the third century CE · Late Yayoi period · Yoshinogari, Saga

What remains until the next harvest

From the storehouse to an exchange

Obtain a replacement vessel while preserving food and next season’s seed.

Every share taken for exchange leaves less in store.

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Homes, stores and protected spaces

Does a growing settlement only need more buildings?

A small settlement of pit dwellings, distinct from the later large centre.
01Early villages
Pit dwellingsEarly settlement

Places to live develop on the hills.

Communities establish places to live

Yoshinogari changed over the Yayoi period. It did not begin as the large centre represented by today’s reconstruction.

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These illustrations explain processes and institutions rather than reconstructing actual people, buildings or layouts. Cutaways and insets show hidden structures or separate locations.

History of Yoshinogari ↗

Early villages

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A small settlement of pit dwellings, distinct from the later large centre.

A small settlement of pit dwellings, distinct from the later large centre.

Nagi, Towa, their exchange partners, harvest division and dialogue are fictional. Archaeological interpretations inform the storehouse and exchange setting, not evidence for this family. The twelve units, minimums and route costs are illustrative models, not historical quantities, proportions or a map.

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Sources
  1. History of Yoshinogari ↗

    吉野ヶ里歴史公園 · Development by phase, enclosures, storage, graves, reconstruction date and dry ditches.

  2. About the Yoshinogari site ↗

    吉野ヶ里歴史公園 · Extent of the site and changing Yayoi settlement.