ニッポンという名前の簡単な歴史
Japan （日本,Nippon Or Nihon and officially became 日本国, Nihonkoku) Is The country consists of 6.852 Island.Four islands The biggest Which forms 97% Land Area Country of Japan 🎌🇯🇵That is Hokkaido,Kyushu,Honshu,and Shikoku.
The Meaning of the Name NIPPON
Japan was originally known as Wa (倭) or Wakoku (倭國) when the country was inhabited by Yayoi people who live in the Kyushu and Kanto regions of Honshu. 倭 can be translated as "dwarf" or "obedient." It was later changed by Japanese writers who found it offensive, to the character Wa with its homophone 和 ("peace, harmony"). Wa 和 often combined with 大 ("great") to create the name 大和, which is read as Yamato which was the original name of Japan at that time.
In the Heian period, 大和 was gradually replaced by 日本 which was pronounced with the Chinese reading Nippon and later as Nifon and in modern usage, Nihon, which literally means"origin of the sun", and is often translated as the Land of the Rising Sun. This originates from imperial correspondence with China's Sui Dynasty and refers to Japan being located east of China.
•Began to be known as Japan
In the 16th century ,Portuguese traders heard from Malay and Indonesia the names Japan, Jipang, and Jepun.And in 1577 Japan was first recorded in the book English travelogue and spelled as Gaipan, “The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies and other Countryreys Lying Eyther Way Towardes the Fruitfull and Ryche Moluccaes.Portuguese missionaries came to Japan and created a Middle Japanese dictionary and grammar with the dictionary Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam which had the entries nifon and iippon.
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