I just read this section but as I was reading the last bit, I ended up reading through 141. I feel like it makes a bit more sense to read through 141 since it contains the Chinese reporters account and then there’s a focus shift starting at the last two panels of 141, but the explanation is from 142 onwards.
Everything I know about Himiko I learnt from the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. There’s a small possibility that some of that was fictionalised, though…
Page 121, Wikipedia has an image showing the seal that’s being displayed in the second panel. It’s currently located in the Fukuoka City Museum (in Fukuoka). Can’t really say that かんのわのなのこくおう particularly rolls off the tongue, though…
The seal on page 136 has been lost to history, so we don’t have any photos of it.
Probably because we’re now moving into recorded history. The book’s no longer theorising about the possible course of events during the ice age, and is now summarising events that were written down in documents that we still have today. Several passages are direct quotations from said documents (albeit updated into modern Japanese).
What a slog I’ve been waiting to get into actual history but maybe I’ve changed my mind now.
Actually my Japanese history knowledge is pretty fuzzy until more like the Heian Jidai, (and even then it’s a lot of letter writing and looking at people’s flowing sleeves from behind screens). So it might continue to be a slog for while..
Around here (googling stuff on page 1) is where I realized that 卑弥呼 is a real person, wow we’re onto real people now! It’s pretty fun to Google her and look at the various representations:
I keep getting google results from a Chinese game called 三国杀 that appears to have several of these historical figures as characters. (I say ‘appears’ because I can’t read Chinese so maybe I’m making this up)
There’s a small possibility that some of that was fictionalised, though…
I’ve been waiting to get into actual history but maybe I’ve changed my mind now.
