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In this article I propose to take a look at those loci in the corpus of ancient Japanese literature which can be connected with the introduction of the art of mounted archery. 1 In important ways I follow and build upon the research in the early history of Japan done by German Japanologists, especially by writers such as Wedemeyer, 2 and Lewin,3 and to a lesser extent by Florenz,4 Nachod,5 and Bohner. 6 With these authors, I share a common positivist outlook that, in the absence of unequivocal archeological evidence, all assertions on early Japanese history must be firmly grounded in the textual sources, and that only in the analysis of these textual sources sufficient evidence for assertions can be found. In other words: the text is the last arbiter, for all conclusions require textual evidence.