Horserider Theory Summary

In the beginning of this article, Edwards reviewed both Egami and Ledyard's argument of the Horserider theory then he pointed some of their ideas. Egami had eight ideas which supports the Horserider theory. His eight ideas are simply assertions of sudden, culture, and circumstances. Egami focused on events in the Horserider theory. On the other hand, Edwards reinterpretated processes rather than each events. He thinks that there wasn't huge differences the early and late kohun period. In addtion, no literatures recorded that events occurred in Japan which could be influenced a political organization. Ojinryo tomb is one of key tombs of archeology studying. Tombs tell us huge manpower controlled political organization. However, Egami's opinion is that middle and late kohun culture were different from the early kohun culture which was discontinuity. The reason was
I learned from Edwards' article that focusing processes rather than small each events allow us to find how things changes in long time period. If we focus on processes, we will be able to understand early Japanese history better than before. In addition, we can't explain countries' relationships based on small number of events. Comparing two thesises show us patterns and connections across the time. Egami and Ledyerd's arguments had patterns grave goods and millitaric strategy. Edwards recommend us to see processes rather than events and materials might not be historical evidences. Myth is also helpful for us to see a power of political organization and unification. However, it doesn't always tell us the truth ,and furthermore doesn't have scichological evidences. Historians and archeologists are trying to do experiments based on materials ehich were found in fourth century. On the other hand, a result of experiments could mislead to understand contexts of early Japanese