haniwa(巫女形埴輪);
storage box
- Museum number
- Franks.2210
- Description
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Cylindrical clay figure in the shape of a woman (mikogata haniwa), standing with left arm pointing down and right arm up, wearing a beaded necklace and elaborate hairstyle; body surface showing fine vertically incised lines; on pedestal with a round perforation on front side; partially restored. Made of low-fired red earthenware. With paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 centimetres
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Width: 31 centimetres
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Depth: 19 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Reproduced in William Gowland, 'The Dolmens and Burial Mounds in Japan', Archaeologia [Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London] 55:2 (1897), fig. 40.
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Smith et al 1990
The figure has her hair tied up into an elaborate coiffure and wears a necklace of beads. The object was excavated in the neighborhood of the village of Motomachi near the port town of Konjo in Musashi Province.
- Location
- On display (North Stairs)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Displayed in the Asiatic Saloon from 1894, see 'A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury)', 1894, p. 202.
1997 13 Oct-1998 5 Jan, India, New Delhi, National Museum, The Enduring Image
1998 9 Feb-3 May, India, Mumbai, Sir Caswasjee Jahangir Hall, The Enduring Image
2006 Oct 13-, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 15 April 1889
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.2210