Rin' - Kagami Tsuki (鏡月)

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[Xezlec]

Also, a Westerner who thinks that China and Japan are the same is a lot like an Easterner who thinks that the US and Mexico are the same. The differences between two related cultures are far more obvious if you're actually from one of them.

[Xezlec]

Saying China is the "root" of Japanese culture may be an overstatement.  Obviously the Chinese influence on Japan has been very significant and important, but Japan has its own roots, regardless of whether they have been overshadowed by Chinese borrowings.

In any case, even some of those borrowings have been changed enough through time to create uniquely Japanese forms. Japan has its own set of rules for Go, its own *very* distinctive style of drawing and using the Chinese characters, etc.

[GOE7Song]

@UkyoTokudaiji The most relevant and accurate comment/answer here as of yet.

[xuezhongzouqin]

In the sky the sixteen-day-old moon gracefully watches the changes in our lives

And from this ancient world of ours, a cloudless mirror of the moon is cast

The shapes of all these things are transient

The shapeless spirits ride only on the boat of time

Ah, if only life was a one night dream

Now let's plant these endless thoughts in our heads

Before long like the waning moon our thoughts and bodies will narrow

With thousands of tears and grief we will embrace the goddess in our arms

[UkyoTokudaiji]

@vampigoth1155 Actually, the archeological evidence points to the Yamato tribe being from Korea while the Emishi and Ainu were Russian. I believe the Ryukyuans might have originated in China, but I'm not sure. Also, I don't understand what Sun Jian and Cao Cao have to do with it, as Japan was settled around 30,000 BC, far before even the Han dynasty was established in China.

[vampigoth1155]

i hate to break it to you but the first people who lived in Japan were chinese who escaped the empire some time before Sun Jian and Cao Cao were born.

[xAnhvaEmx]

ah yeh and I am westerner! ^ ^

[xAnhvaEmx]

@Xezlec I'm also annoyed that many westerners don't know much about asia and thinking china and japan as the same is totally weird, but there are always people who don't know about things. Many westerners are interested in asia and knows these things, don't worry '^ .^