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Jōmon Today

The Jōmon period has left a great influence on the Japanese people of today as well.

In 2021, the "Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan" in Hokkaido and northern Tōhoku became a World Heritage Site.

These are seventeen sites located in Hokkaido and Aomori, Iwate, and Akita Prefectures.

The Sannai-Maruyama site and the Ōyu stone circles are included among them.

The Jōmon tells us of the long history in which the Japanese lived together with nature.

For more than ten thousand years, they lived together with nature, by hunting, fishing, and gathering nuts.

It is said to be rare even in the world for a society not centered on agriculture to have lasted this long.

The beauty of Jōmon pottery and dogū has had a great influence on artists as well.

The painter Okamoto Tarō wrote that he felt a powerful force when he saw Jōmon pottery.

At museums in various places, you can see Jōmon pottery and dogū.

If you see the real things, you may come to understand a little of what people long ago felt.

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