JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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The three main actor countries in our new booklet are: China, Japan and Korea. The ancient arts from
the first two countries were shown in our series, but their inexhaustable heritage resounds again and
again. The fragments of life appear in these arts in an alloyed form. Alloyed from the local people and
the conquesting soldier or warrior people who organized state life. There are recognizable fregments
from the art of the conqueror peoples and from the arts of the local peoples. The art of the conquerors are
shown in the articles of the arms, horse mount, mostly from steppe art traditions, the art of the local
people is represented in the life fragments of agriculture, house farming. Both traditions are alloyed in
the industrial technologies.
Fig. 2. The backside cover of the coloring booklet: Ancient Art of Eastern-Asia (upper image is from
China, dragon adornation, the lower image displays a Xiongnu–Hun belt buckle from Ordos, China,
from the 2. C. B. C.).
Earlier layers are frequently emerging as representatives of the steppe art of the Hun-Scythian
warriors in these cultural landscapes. Their old technologies in bronze casting, in horse mounting, in car
industry (couch = kocsi, 高车 = gaoche = kocsi), in organizing tarditions, and the high level of the cavalry
cultures in arts, especially in ornamental arts. The fights between the conquerers and local powers were
recorded in the Chinese, Korean and Japanese chronicles, too. In our new booklet the art of the old
Koreans appear as a fresh new wind.
The cars and the development of the spoke-wheeled car especially made it possible to cover large
distances and form everday life for large number of pastoral people of the Great Eurasian Steppe Belt.
This instrument had been developed and sketched, drawn, ornamented in art. The warriors of the easily
moving cavalry people were conquerers, founders and organizers of several Eastern-Asian local and
global kingdoms but later they were assimilated by the local country. These events are witnessed by the
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