Citations:Yamato

ruling clan, hence ethnic group

 * 1912, F. Kikuchi Brinkley, A History of the Japanese People ISBN 1465513043:
 * Dr. Munro holds that, 'judging from the  physiognomy seen in the aristocratic type of Japanese, the Yamato were mainly of Caucaic, perhaps Iranian, origin."
 * 2009, Shinto ISBN 1438106467, page 42:
 * The Yamato were not the first rulers of Japan.