单词 | dotaku |
释义 | dotakun. Archaeology. With plural agreement. Bronze bell-shaped objects typically decorated with geometric designs or stylized scenes from life, and believed to have been used in agricultural rituals in Japan during the Yayoi period (300 b.c.–300 a.d.). Also (more rarely) with singular agreement: one of these objects.Some scholars have argued that these objects originally served a functional purpose, and later became purely ceremonial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts scyphus1722 ceraunite1814 skyphos1847 shaft-hole1852 ostracon1853 scramasax1862 shard1865 ovate1872 omphalos1884 stop-ridge1894 tsung1904 pygmy flint1907 spacer1907 dotaku1908 yuan1912 roughout1913 rostro-carinate1919 shawabti1922 racloir1923 shoe-last1927 sleeve1929 ard1931 proto-biface1967 1908 N. G. Munro Prehistoric Japan ix. 324 We consider the Dotaku to be adjuncts to the Yamato culture. 1987 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 45 i. 9 Strict geometry characterizes the dramatic profile and decoration of this dōtaku. 1992 Japanese Jrnl. Relig. Stud. 19 153 In many ways dōtaku are an archaeologist's nightmare, because almost all have been found without any associated artifacts that might give clues to their date or function. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1908 |
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