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The Jōmon pottery (縄文土器, Jōmon doki) is a type of ancient earthenware pottery which was made during the Jōmon period in Japan. The term "Jōmon" ( 縄文 ) means "rope-patterned" in Japanese, describing the patterns that are pressed into the clay.
Incipient Jōmon pottery (14th–8th millennium BC) Tokyo National Museum, Japan Jomon flame-style pottery, 3,000 BC, excavated at the Iwanohara site, Niigata Prefecture. The earliest pottery in Japan was made at or before the start of the Incipient Jōmon period. Small fragments, dated to 14,500 BC, were found at the Odai Yamamoto I site in 1998.
Cord-marked pottery required a technique of pressing twisted cords into the clay, or by rolling cord-wrapped sticks across the clay. The Japanese definition for the period of prehistory characterized by the use of pottery is Jōmon ( 縄文 , lit. cord-patterned) and refers to the entire period (c. 10,500 to 300 BC). [ 18 ]
The style of pottery created by the Jōmon people is identifiable for its "cord-marked" patterns, hence the name "Jōmon" (縄文, "straw rope pattern").The pottery styles characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture used decoration created by impressing cords into the surface of wet clay, and are generally accepted to be among the oldest forms of pottery in East Asia and the world. [9]
They crafted lavishly decorated pottery storage vessels, clay figurines called dogū, and crystal jewels. A Final Jōmon dogū statuette (1000–400 BCE), Tokyo National Museum. The oldest examples of Jōmon pottery have flat bottoms, though pointed bottoms (meant to be held in small pits in the earth, like an amphora) became common later. [3]
Dogū, Ebisuda site in Tajiri, Miyagi Prefecture, 1000–400 BC.. Dogu (Japanese: 土偶, IPA:; literally "earthen figure") are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the later part of the Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan.
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Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center (函館市縄文文化交流センター, Hakodate Jōmon Bunka Kōryū Senta—) is a history museum in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, opened in 2011.