History of Japanese PotteryChristy P
Japanese pottery, objects made in Japan from clay and hardened by fire: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. Japan is a well-wooded country, and wood has always been used there for domestic utensils of all kinds, either in a natural state or lacquered.
In over 12,000 years of theJapanese tradition, few items have been considered more precious than finely craftedJapanese pottery. While much of that history is undoubtedly concerned with the production of everyday wares (for storage use or for cooking), the elite classes in Japan cultivated a lo...
of archaeologistLi Chi(Li Ji) atAnyang, in Henan province, but this was suspended with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The civil war of the late 1940s and the subsequent social disruptions further delayed any resumption of systematic archaeological excavation and publication. ...
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A striking piece of Stone Age Art. Summary In prehistoric art, the term "Jomon" (which means "cord pattern" in Japanese) refers to the ancient pottery produced by Japan's first Stone Age culture, during the period 14,500 and 1000 BCE. (See also: Pottery Timeline.) It was christened ...
Bill Emmott, Chair of the Japan Society (UK) and former editor-in-chief ofThe Economist “A marvelously accessible distillation of thousands of years of Japanese history . . . . It captures, too, the uncertainty of the present day, as Japan grapples with the challenges of a shrinking popu...
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Until the 1970s, few professional Japanese historians regarded material culture and lifestyles as subjects of serious inquiry. The civil wars of the sixteenth century and the concurrent social and economic developments were catalysts in the transformation of the material culture and lifestyles of the co...
Japanese rural population. Such utilitarian fabrics became Japanese peasant clothing and common household textiles. As in the manner of other Japanese folk crafts ( mingei e.g., pottery, lacquer work etc.) what was considered a basic necessity by the Japanese who created and made use of these...