{"id":660,"date":"2012-05-09T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2013-05-15T01:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:17:01","slug":"call-to-independent-researchers-japanese-ancient-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2012\/05\/call-to-independent-researchers-japanese-ancient-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to independent researchers: Japanese ancient civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently writing a book on ancient civilizations of Japan, and rumors thereof. This will include the following topics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Himiko and Yamatai<\/b>, the current academic consensus about Japan&#8217;s ancient civilization (circa 300 BCE-300 CE). This will mostly be drawn from sources already available in English.\n\t<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kojiki and Nihon Shoki<\/strong>, the two ancient histories of Japan which provide us with a glimpse of the heroes of prehistory. This will be drawn from Japanese sources, which are somewhat translated in English but can only be found at academic libraries or rare bookstores.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parahistories<\/strong> or <em>koshi-koden<\/em>, a dozen or so documents attesting to ancient affairs on the East Asian continent, and rumors of Japan&#8217;s influence around the world. Very little of this has been translated into English so far and I will be working 70% from Japanese sources.\n\t<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hitsuki Shinji<\/strong>, a channeled document with strong ties to the parahistories. This topic has never been mentioned before in English. I will be doing all of the translation myself.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are interested in these topics, whether you are researching them yourself or you want to know more, drop me a comment on this page, or email me at <img src=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/mail\" alt=\"address\" \/> and I will get back to you shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently writing a book on ancient civilizations of Japan, and rumors thereof. This will include the following topics: Himiko and Yamatai, the current academic consensus about Japan&#8217;s ancient civilization (circa 300 BCE-300 CE). This will mostly be drawn from sources already available in English. Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the two ancient histories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}