Talk:Yamatai/@comment-5168536-20151005160334/@comment-119.74.195.117-20151115061710

Indeed. The buddhist inspried statues, architecture style and samurai weaponry/armoury all points to at most a Sui/Tang dynasty period influence and nothing before that. I see nothing that is from Qin/Han/3 Kingdoms or Yayoi/Kofun period and the pre-modern artifacts found are usually from the Kamakura, Edo,Meiji and Yuan/Ming period. The Zhou (mistakenly spelt as Chou) artifacts are probably from traders or naval surveillance expeditions, which is unsurprising as China was already a naval power by that time.

I suspect that the game followed the Yamoto province theory, in which Yamatai is on the mainland in Yamoto province, which was then overthrown by the Wa people and then the Yamatai people exiled themsleves onto this island.

But the problem is, no Mongol expedition was ever launched in this area, the Mongols had their main campaigns focused on northern Kyushu, not east of it. But maybe it was just a small expeditionary force that wanting to secure an island base at the flanks of Japan, as Japan's defenses would definitely almost entirely be on the western side where invasions are a potential threat. I highly doubt the Kamikazes was by Himiko, seeing that her powers are obviously limited in range.