Fragments of metal buried under sacred soil for fourteen centuries. Analysis of pieces of armor discovered at the site of the temple of Asukadera, in Nara Prefecture, Japan, indicates close links with the armors of the Korean kingdom of Baekje. Professor Emeritus Kanekatsu Inokuma of Kyoto Tachibana University points out that these results overlap the descriptions of Nihon Shoki, a Japanese imperial chronicle of the eighth century. If the conclu…
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Fragments of metal buried under sacred soil for fourteen centuries. Analysis of pieces of armor discovered at the site of the temple of Asukadera, in Nara Prefecture, Japan, indicates close links with the armors of the Korean kingdom of Baekje. Professor Emeritus Kanekatsu Inokuma of Kyoto Tachibana University points out that these results overlap the descriptions of Nihon Shoki, a Japanese imperial chronicle of the eighth century. If the conclu…