The ancient Japanese traded goods they produced well like pottery, armor, weapons, cloth and sculptures due to lacking natural resources as an island nation, bartering items for materials like wood, rice and grains with nearby Chinese tribes including Gojoseon, Baejke, Silli and Gaya to obtain necessities.

1. • The ancient Japanese traded things they were good at producing.
• Since Japan is and island with minimal resources the Japanese
became talented with arts and crafts.
• The Japanese became particularly good at producing pottery, armor
and weapons, cloth, daggers and other household items.
• They would even trade clay sculpture known as dogū. These
sculptures are know to be one of the oldest examples of ancient
pottery.
• These items were traded for natural resources they lacked such as
wood, rice, soybeans and millet.
• The Japanese mainly traded with the Gojoseon a tribe that was
settled in far eastern China. However they had traded with many
other tribes in southern China such as the Baejke, Silli and Gaya.