On The Six To Seven By Mid-century Baiji Japanese Relations

Before the sixth century, Baekje and Goguryeo are the main strong kingdoms that compete with each other on the Korean peninsula. Although Silla had been founded for a long time, it did not posses enough power to compete with the other two kingdoms. However, in the middle of the sixth century, Silla, which had weak power and depended on the strong country to defend itself, became the one of the most powerful country on the peninsula. It participated in the scrambling for supremacy and converted the situation on the peninsula, in the meanwhile, took the Northeast Asia into a new era. Wo is from the later period of Yayoi culture to koufun period (300～593 A.D.) and Asuka period (604～645 A.D.). In the sixth and seventh century Wo entered into feudal society through reform of shengde prince and dahua. In the process of becoming feudal society, Wo absorbed advanced culture from China and the three countries on the Korean peninsula continuously. The Imna issue intensified the contradiction between Wo and Silla and it resulted in the tense confrontation of the two countries. Wo carried out the policy of contacting Baekje and Goguryeo to attack Silla in consideration of the improvement with Wo-Goguryeo relationship and the traditional friendship of Wo-Baekje relation. Simultaneously, Wo also tried their best to coordinate the relationship with the Sui Dynasty. This paper will take the international relationship in the Northeast Asia during the sixth and seventh century as the background to examine the proceeded relationship between Baekje and Wo in order to survive in the international environment of violent change.This paper is composed of five parts and the main points are as follows:Conclusion session states research purpose, significance, developments, angle of view and the creativity.In the first chapter, it briefly introduced the general situation of Baekje and Wo from sixth century to the middle of seventh century as the basis of this thesis.In the second chapter, there is the relationship of the two countries. The relationship of the two countries is explained by two sessions of the sixth and seventh century period. The sixth century can be considered as the period that Wo transmitted abundant of sophisticated culture to Baekje.