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Yayoi|ˈjɑːjɔɪ|
The name of a quarter in Tokyo, used attrib. and absol. to designate a type of early Japanese (wheel-thrown) pottery first discovered at this site in 1884, and hence applied to the mainly neolithic culture characterized by this ware. Cf. Jomon.
1906N. G. Munro in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan XXXIV. 24 The pottery..is called Yayoishiki, ‘Yayoi sort’, because it was first encountered in breaking ground at Yoyoi [sic] Street in Tokyo. 1931G. B. Sansom Japan i. i. 3 This latter type is known as the Yayoi type, because of certain characteristic earthenware first found in a neolithic site at a place of that name. 1955Far Eastern Q. XIV. 329 It is not entirely clear why so few workers paid any serious attention until extremely recent years to the archaeology of the Yayoi period. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan vi. 136 Jomon pottery 3,000 B.C. on to Yayoi from A.D.0. 1968Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 523/3 The prehistoric period in Japan is characterized by two principal cultures known as Jōmon and Yayoi... Yayoi pottery seems to have its beginnings in the 3rd century B.C. and is mostly wheel-thrown. 1970J. W. Hall Japan iii. 19 The Yayoi people brought with them the horse and the cow, though not in abundance. |