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...

in Jōmon pottery. Yayoi craft specialists made bronze ceremonial bells (dōtaku), mirrors, and weapons. By the 1st century AD, Yayoi people began using...

viewed as compassionate entities. Archaeological evidence suggests that dotaku bronze bells, bronze weapons, and metal mirrors played an important role...

period, artisans produced mirrors, spears, and ceremonial bells known as dōtaku. Later burial mounds, or kofun, preserve characteristic clay figures known...

centered in northern Kyushu, whereas the dōtaku cultural area centered in the Kinki region. The five dōtaku molds and five bronze spear molds excavated...

Bronze hoko spears and dōtaku ritual bells excavated at the Kōjindani Site (ja:荒神谷遺跡) in Hikawa, Shimane...

2nd century BC Yayoi dōtaku bronze bell...

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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...

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...