Fishermen and Farmers of the Yayoi and the Epi-Jomon Cultures

绳文时代，在北九州和朝鲜半岛之间有移动的渔民和捕鲸船。弥生文化是日本诸岛最早的稻作文化，当弥生文化从半岛传入日本时，它们就与这一传播相衔接。它们的迁徙路线是根据在考古遗址中发现的鱼叉头推测的。它们沿着日本海迁徙到北海道。它们中的一部分也迁移到了濑户海地区，并通过纪伊半岛的尖端到达了日本中部地区。然而，在东日本，弥生的农民和渔民遇到了绳纹土著渔民，绳纹人和弥生人都在那里建立了新的社区。日本文化的一个特点被认为是海洋性的，这是由这些弥生和绳文渔民造成的。

There were mobile fishermen and whalers between North Kyushu and Korea peninsula in the Jomon Age. When the Yayoi Culture, the first rice cultivation culture in the Japanese Islands, spread from the peninsula to Japan, they jointed the spreads. Their migration routes are supposed by their toggle harpoon heads discovered in archaeological sites. Along the Japan Sea they migrated as far as Hokkaido. Some of them also migrated to the Seto Sea area and reached the Middle Japan area via the tip of the Kii peninsula. In East Japan, however, the Yayoi farmers and fishermen met the aboriginal Jomon fishermen, and both Jomon and Yayoi peoples made new communities there. One character of the Japanese culture has been thought to be maritime, which was caused by these Yayoi and Jomon fishermen.