Citations:Yamato

English citations of Yamato

ruling clan, hence ethnic group

• 1912, F. Kikuchi Brinkley, A History of the Japanese People →ISBN:

  Dr. Munro […] holds that, 'judging from the […] physiognomy seen in the aristocratic type of Japanese, the Yamato were mainly of Caucaic, perhaps Iranian, origin."

• 2009, Shinto →ISBN, page 42:

  The Yamato were not the first rulers of Japan.