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I read The Nihon Shoki Is False History. Buyeo Pung, acclaimed king of the Baekje Restoration Army, was supposedly a king of Wa? And Wa's Tenchi was supposedly Buyeo Pung's son? Throughout, the book uses historical sources to argue empirically that Baekje ruled Wa. The author claims the Baekje people created the Nihon Shoki: an invented false history meant to deceive locals with claims such as “We are not Baekje's vassals” and “Your rulers share your roots, natives.” I felt proud as I read. I
Lee Won-hee: The Nihon Shoki is a forged book.
The book's argument in brief is: Baekje ruled Wa, and the Nihon Shoki is a fabricated false history. In more detail: (1) The 37 kings of Wa in the Nihon Shoki, from the founder Jimmu through the 37th, Saimei, are fictional characters. (2) The actual kings of Wa were princes sent from Baekje, and the ruling class consisted of Baekje aristocrats. (3) Thus the Nihon Shoki is a false history recording an invented past, and the Imna-Japan Government Office is an absurd later addition. (4) Aristocrats' names, including those ending in “maro” and “dari,” all sounded Korean.... In short, most material culture was distinctly Baekje-style. The same phenomenon that occurred in modern Korea under Japanese colonial rule, when Japanese people became the ruling class and governed with enormous influence in every sphere, had occurred in ancient Wa.
Korean title: 일본서기는 위서다
Korean author: 이원희
Korean publisher: 주류성
ISBN-13: 9788962465327
Reviews
I read The Nihon Shoki Is False History. Buyeo Pung, acclaimed king of the Baekje Restoration Army, was supposedly a king of Wa? And Wa's Tenchi was supposedly Buyeo Pung's son? Throughout, the book uses historical sources to argue empirically that Baekje ruled Wa. The author claims the Baekje people created the Nihon Shoki: an invented false history meant to deceive locals with claims such as “We are not Baekje's vassals” and “Your rulers share your roots, natives.” I felt proud as I read. I
