Wa (Japan)

Japanski Wa (倭, Wa^? "Japan, Japanski", od kineskog Wō 倭, Hangul Wae 왜) je najstarije zabilježeno ime za Japan. Kineski, korejski i kineski pisci su redovno navodili Wa ili Yamato "Japan" sa kineskim slovom 倭 sve do 8. vijeka, kada se Japancima to prestalo sviđati, pa su ga zamijenili sa slovom 和 "harmonija, mir, ravnoteža".

Kinesko slovo za Wō ili Wa, stvoreno od korijena za "osobu" 亻i fonetskog elementa wěi ili wa 委

Eksterni linkovi

• (en) Unihan data for U+502D, Unihan Database entry for 倭
• (en) English translation of the Wei Zhi Arhivirano 2012-03-06 na Wayback Machine-u, Koji Nakayama
• (en) Queen Himiko as Recorded in the Wei Chronicle, Wontack Hong
• (en) The Relatedness between the Origin of Japanese and Korean Ethnicity Arhivirano 2007-06-14 na Wayback Machine-u, Jaehoon Lee
• (en)The Chronicles of Wa, Wesley Injerd
• (en) Japan in Chinese and Japanese Historic Accounts Arhivirano 2012-10-16 na Wayback Machine-u, John A. Tucker
• {{en icon]] The Early Relations between China and Japan Arhivirano 2010-11-08 na Wayback Machine-u, Jiang Yike
• (ja) 「三国志・魏志」巻３０　東夷伝・倭人, Chinese text and Japanese translation of the Wei Zhi 魏志 account of Wa
• (ja) 邪馬台國研究本編, Chinese text and Japanese translations of Chinese historical accounts of Wa
• (ja) 日本古代史参考史料漢籍 Arhivirano 1999-10-10 na Wayback Machine-u, Accounts of Wa from 15 Chinese histories