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Clothing and Ornaments

What kind of clothes did people in the Jōmon period wear?

Almost no cloth clothing has survived, so we do not know much about it.

It is thought that in the cold season they wore animal furs.

It seems there were also clothes made of cloth plaited from plant fibers such as hemp, that is, angin cloth.

Many needles made of bone have been found.

They probably sewed fur and cloth with these needles.

There may also have been people who wore beautiful clothes.

But unfortunately, we do not know what colors or shapes they were.

The people of the Jōmon period were also very fond of ornaments.

Bracelets made of shell and necklaces made of animal bones and fangs have been found.

A bracelet made of shells is called a kaiwa (shell ring).

There were also earrings worn on the ears.

In Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture, a beautiful green stone called jade was found, and it was worked into large beads called taishu.

There were also combs and vessels coated with lacquer, and lacquer products about 9,000 years old have been found.

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