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Dōtaku (銅鐸) are ****anese
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...
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approximately 470
dōtaku that have been
excavated nationwide, a
total of 50 have been
unearthed from Izumo. In many
cases the
dōtaku appear to have been...
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archaeologist William Gowland, (3rd–6th
centuries AD)
Three ornate bronze Dōtaku or
bells from the
Yayoi period, ****an, (200 BC – 200 AD)
Gilded and inscribed...
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viewed as comp****ionate entities.
Archaeological evidence suggests that
dotaku bronze bells,
bronze weapons, and
metal mirrors pla**** an
important role...
- same
burial pit as the
dotaku, with
their blades raised up and
their tips alternating. Next to them were
small bronze dotaku lying with
their fins upright...
- 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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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...
- 2nd-century BC
Yayoi dōtaku bronze bell...
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material culture of
their own. One of the most
distinctive are
large bronze dōtaku bells,
thought to have
evolved from
earlier normal bells, and
which were...
