★ Rare Studio Pottery - Akeno Kiln - Vintage Japanese JOMON DOREI BELL - fishing pottery of Yatsugatake - Minami Alps ★
Jomon is a period of Japanese prehistory that lasted over 10000 years and corresponds with the European Stone Age.
Yatsugatake - name of the mountain range that spreads from Nagano to Yamanashi Prefecture. Some of the most remarkable sites and artifacts were discovered from those regions. Ceremonies may have been held when celestial phenomena took place at strategic locations.
JOMON Japanese Dorei Bell Akeno Kiln Rustic Kofun Earthenware Folk Toy
★ SHOWA RETRO - 1970s ★
★ ORIGIN : AKENO KILN, YAMANASHI PREFECTURE ★
★ DIMENSIONS : 10.2 cm x 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm ★
★ MATERIAL : CLAY - SILK - PAPER BOX ★
★ EARTHEN BROWN - ORANGE - WHITE ★
★ MADE IN JAPAN ★
★ NEW OLD STOCK ★
★ NESTED IN ORIGINAL BOX ★
Mt. Yatsugatake is one of the stunning natural areas of Japan and a symbol of Japan’s highland resorts throughout all four seasons. The main peaks are Mt. Akadake (2,899m) and the lofty Mt. Kitadake (3,192.6m). Its floral and faunal diversity supported their lives and its beauty underlies their symbolic world views. The Jomon of the Central Highlands of Japan flourished based on the bounty of Mt. Yatsugatke.
The prehistoric Jomon period (c. 14,000–400 BC) is a long-term Stone Age culture found throughout Japan. The Jomon of the Central Highlands of Japan, one of the Japan Heritage areas, includes some of the most remarkable Jomon sites and artifacts, recognized for their beauty and importance. These sites are mostly from the Middle Jomon Period (c. 3,500–2,500 BC) and are characterized by magnificent art such as pottery vessels and clay figurines. They also are unique for the prevalence of obsidian, which remains in the names of places such as “Hoshikuso” (stardust) and “Hoshigato” (tower of star) referring to the glitter of obsidian remains found on the ground.Jomon people developed their techniques as pottery craftspeople and artists. The pottery reflects the diversity of Jomon regional cultures and lifestyles in the Japanese archipelago, with its abundant natural environment.
Some Jomon pottery vessels symbolize their world views, and others are made with extreme abstract expression. Jomon people applied their artistic technique to create clay figurines (dogu). Most are believed to be modeled on the shape of women and linked to prehistoric fertility rites. Both pottery vessels and clay figurines were embedded in the daily lives of Jomon people.
The Jomon period corresponds to the Stone Age. The stone tools of the Jomon people indicate their adaptations to the environment as well as their exchange and trade activities. Jomon stone toolbox contains hunting tools, such as arrowheads and spears, and food processing tools like stone mortars.
Besides those tools, a large number of stone tools with sharp edges were used for creating other goods: such as fishing tools made of bones and antlers, wooden tools, and other handicrafts made of wood, bark, textile, bone, urushi lacquer, and leather handicrafts.
Jomon people created various stone artifacts, such as stone rods and ornamental beads. Stone tools and handicrafts were made of diverse raw materials, notably obsidian, jade, and amber.
These production sites are very limited, which stimulated the growth of broad exchange and trade networks amongst the Jomon people. Recent developments in the archaeological sciences has revealed long-distance transportations of these stone materials.
The settlement landscapes of the Jomon people were shaped by the production of these goods. They selected specific lands, worked on the earth, and made their living conditions and symbolic landscapes.
Jomon artifacts introduced above encompass essential elements of a way of life that continued for ten thousand years. They evoke not only our curiosity towards a remote, exotic, and lost world but also an affinity between Jomon period as a distant past and the current us, who are drifting between universality and particularity in traveling about the world.
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