Comments on: This might prove interesting http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62398 sanshinseon Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:06:20 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62398 Yup, it's ironic -- and the real underlying fuel for all the anti-Korean prejudice in Japan -- deep down they're scared to find out. Some J academics have admitted the probability of that being the actual history, and have been (verbally) attacked -- tho none lost their jobs yet over it, Bevers-style, so far as i've heard... Yup, it’s ironic — and the real underlying fuel for all the anti-Korean prejudice in Japan — deep down they’re scared to find out. Some J academics have admitted the probability of that being the actual history, and have been (verbally) attacked — tho none lost their jobs yet over it, Bevers-style, so far as i’ve heard…

]]> By: Origami http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62333 Origami Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:07:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62333 Quote from Article:"But the myth that Japan's 125 emperors descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami of Japan's native Shinto religion still holds sway among rightists. Suggestions by some scholars that the imperial line originated elsewhere — for example, on the Korean peninsula — have been attacked as an insult to the Japanese people." ----------------------------------------------- The irony of a Korean sitting on the chrysanthemum throne :) Quote from Article:”But the myth that Japan’s 125 emperors descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami of Japan’s native Shinto religion still holds sway among rightists.

Suggestions by some scholars that the imperial line originated elsewhere — for example, on the Korean peninsula — have been attacked as an insult to the Japanese people.”

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The irony of a Korean sitting on the chrysanthemum throne :)

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62012 sanshinseon Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:46:48 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-62012 The shape and arrangement of those tombs and the architecture of their stone foundation are similar to royal tombs of Baekje around the fifth and sixth centuries, according to the late art historian Jon Carter Covell, in her book _Korean Impact on Japanese Culture -- Japan's Hidden History_ (Hollym). Ditto the "Three Imperial Treasures" (Iron Sword, Jade Jewel and Bronze Mirror) that neither the public nor researchers ever get to see (or at least we can say that access is highly restricted). And it's no surprise that this is a favorite theme of some Korean historical-archaeologists, and no surprise that it's a sensitive subject in Japan. Her book was published more than 25 years ago, and I don't know what the progress of academic opinion on this subject has been since then, having kept up with it. Anybody...? But anyway, this is the reason why it's kind of a thing worth noticing if the Japanese Powers That Be permit slightly greater access to these tombs.... The shape and arrangement of those tombs and the architecture of their stone foundation are similar to royal tombs of Baekje around the fifth and sixth centuries, according to the late art historian Jon Carter Covell, in her book _Korean Impact on Japanese Culture — Japan’s Hidden History_ (Hollym). Ditto the “Three Imperial Treasures” (Iron Sword, Jade Jewel and Bronze Mirror) that neither the public nor researchers ever get to see (or at least we can say that access is highly restricted). And it’s no surprise that this is a favorite theme of some Korean historical-archaeologists, and no surprise that it’s a sensitive subject in Japan.

Her book was published more than 25 years ago, and I don’t know what the progress of academic opinion on this subject has been since then, having kept up with it. Anybody…?

But anyway, this is the reason why it’s kind of a thing worth noticing if the Japanese Powers That Be permit slightly greater access to these tombs….

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-61975 SomeguyinKorea Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:27:34 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-61975 Yeah, it doesn't sound like they'll be digging anytime soon. "What can be gleaned from walking around a tomb"? Not much. Maybe a sense of national pride. :) Yeah, it doesn’t sound like they’ll be digging anytime soon. “What can be gleaned from walking around a tomb”? Not much. Maybe a sense of national pride. :)

]]> By: pawikirogi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-61830 pawikirogi Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:41:42 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/01/08/this-might-prove-interesting/#comment-61830 'begin walking on the tombs...' i thought that was a typo at first. wonder what can be gleaned from just walking around a tomb. instead of allowing that, why not allow archeologists to examine what has already been excavated and stored away? ‘begin walking on the tombs…’

i thought that was a typo at first. wonder what can be gleaned from just walking around a tomb. instead of allowing that, why not allow archeologists to examine what has already been excavated and stored away?

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