is a country of dwarves thought to be located south of Yamataikoku, which appears in Ancient China's Book of the Later Han and Records of the Three Kingdoms in Wei Zhi. It is mentioned together with Black tooth country and the Land of the Naked in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Overview The following are listed in Chinese history books. Book of the Later Han and the so-called Wajin Biography in Records of the Three Kingdoms state that it is located 4,000 miles south of the queen state of Wa-koku.
The Shanhai Jing, a document that precedes the Wajinden, mentions an island called in the eastern sea. The same book also mentions other dwarfs such as "", "", and "" living in the east and south. The words "" and "" have the same pronunciation and etymology as , which is originally the same word.
Wajinden According to the Wajinden
Book of the Later Han According to the Book of the Later Han
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Tanegashima
Many have identified Tanegashima with Shujukoku.邪馬台国 石原洋三郎 令和元年10月 第一印刷P18-p23。。This is the result of a study of human bones excavated from Tanegashima Island from the Yayoi period to the Kofun period, with "extreme" short head, short head, and short stature characteristics種子島における古人骨形質の時代変化 竹中正巳 2009年。 and that it is consistent with the anthropological characteristics of Shujukoku described in the wajinden. This is the reason why Tanegashima Island is located in the south of Kyushu. Tanegashima is located about 4,000 ri south of northern Kyushu, which is about 4,000 ri in the shortest sense of the word, so some Yamatai Kyushu Theorists have compared the country to Tanegashima.。
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See also
Sukunabikona、Issun-bōshi Korpokkur