yemishi

Updated: July 18, 2026

Thus, the theory of a special race of immigrants anterior to the Yemishi has to be abandoned so far as the evidence of pit-dwelling is concerned. The fact is that the use of partially underground residences cannot be regarded as specially characteristic of any race or as differentiating one section of the people of Japan from another.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era