Dōtaku (銅鐸) are Japanese bells smelted from relatively thin bronze and richly decorated. Dotaku were used for about 400 years, between the second century...
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in Jōmon pottery. Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells (dōtaku), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people began using...
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viewed as compassionate entities. Archaeological evidence suggests that dotaku bronze bells, bronze weapons, and metal mirrors played an important role...
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period, artisans produced mirrors, spears, and ceremonial bells known as dōtaku. Later burial mounds, or kofun, preserve characteristic clay figures known...
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centered in northern Kyushu, whereas the dōtaku cultural area centered in the Kinki region. The five dōtaku molds and five bronze spear molds excavated...
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Bronze hoko spears and dōtaku ritual bells excavated at the Kōjindani Site (ja:荒神谷遺跡) in Hikawa, Shimane...
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Cornicello Crepundia Corn dolly Corn husk doll Cross necklace Dacian Draco Djucu Dōtaku Dreamcatcher Dzi bead Elf-arrow Fascinus Fulu God's eye Good luck charm...
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used to make weapons, armor, tools, and ritual implements such as bells (dotaku) Chon, Ho Chon. "Kitora Tomb Originates in Koguryo Murals". Choson Sinbo...
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Nanban art (the former Hajime Ikenaga Collection), as well as a set of dōtaku and other items of the Yayoi period from excavations at Sakuragaoka that...
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