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Human-Shaped Haniwa
Unknown5th Century
Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
Saitama prefecture , Japan
This human-shaped haniwa is thought to depict a sitting miko (female shaman) with goreikyō, small, round mirrors with five attached bells each. Around her neck, she wears a beaded necklace represented in clay. She has a Shimada hairstyle (a Japanese women’s chignon-like hairstyle), and there are depictions of a belt and skirt-like clothing around her waist.
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Details
- Title: Human-Shaped Haniwa
- Creator: Unknown
- Date: 5th Century
- Physical Dimensions: d53 cm
- Object Date(Japanese): 古墳時代 5世紀
- Excavation(Japanese): 埼玉県行田市埼玉 埼玉古墳群稲荷山古墳出土
- Type: Clay
- External Link: Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
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