Question

Describe the main attributes of pottery, such as the example above, from the Jomon period?

Answer 1

Pottery from Jōmon period in Japan (Jōmon doki, c. 14,500 - c. 300 BCE) is a type of ancient earthenware pottery. The main characteristic of pottery decoration was rope pressed patterns into clay, hence the name "Jōmon" which means "rope-patterned". The pottery crafts from Jōmon period are the oldest potteries in Japan and among the oldest in the world. The example above belongs to the pottery made in Middle Jōmon period (Umataka Kaen) from Hokuriku region, which is called 'fire-flame' for its 3D type decorations which resemble flames. Pottery in this period is characteristic for thick walls, flamboyant decorations and patterns (flame like) and molds with ropes, human faces, snakes and other animal motifs.

Answer 2

Initial Jomon pots are typically round with sharp bottoms and also low-fired, while early Jomon is typified by flat-bottoms, and (in North-eastern part of Japan) by tubular forms, evocative of styles on the mainland Chinese. In the Middle Jomon period, a much grander variation of vessels emerged and are fired in furnaces at greatly higher temperatures and then in the Late Jomon period, new shapes of pottery were advanced for ceremonial reasons and anthropomorphic dogu figures and masks with goggle eyes.

 

EXPLANATION:

Jomon pots are conventionally separated into five types:

1. "F u k a b a c h i" - deep jars or bowls

2. "Hachi" - bowls of medium depth

3. "Asabachi" – low surface bowls. However, very shallow bowls are sometimes called "Sara" - plates.

4. "Tsubo" - narrow mouth and long neck container

5. "Chuko" - vessels with spouts.  

 

There are some facts about shallow bowls

• Generally, the most familiar kind of Jomon pottery is the deep bowl. Scholars consider that most of the deep bowls from the Incipient Jomon period had rounded bottoms, even though many others may have had a unique form figuring a square mouth and flat bottom. Round and pointed bottoms prevailed during the Initial Jomon phase but flat bottoms turned out to be the benchmark during and after the Early Jomon.

• Shallow bowls emerged for the first time close to the end of the Early Jomon phase.  

• The emergence of Early Jomon shallow bowls did not stimulate an instant divergence of vessel kinds. Even though the Middle Jomon phase is recognized for a large quantity of ornamentally ornamented pots, similar to that of the "fire-flame" ceramic pots in the region of Hokuriku, deep bowls persisted dominant through the period.

• It was in the Final and Late Jomon phase that diversification occurred, with a plethora of different vessel forms appearing in Jomon pottery assemblages during these periods.  

• Final and Late Jomon ceramics are also typified by the existence of indelicately made pots. Even though several Early and Middle Jomon accumulations do perform less ornamented pots (often vessels with just cord marks), a clear distinction between indelicately made vessels and outstandingly made pots is a type of only the Final and Late Jomon periods.  

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KEYWORDS : Jomon period, pottery

Subject  : Arts

Class  : 10-12

Sub-Chapter : Asian Pottery