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Yayoi Pottery

People in the Yayoi period used a pottery called Yayoi pottery.

Yayoi pottery is characterized by a reddish-brown color and by being thin and hard.

Compared with Jōmon pottery, much of it has few patterns or none at all.

Deep bowls were the main form in the Jōmon period, but Yayoi pottery has many shapes.

A tsubo is a jar with a narrow mouth and a swelling body.

It is thought that seed momi and grain were put into jars.

A kame is a pot used mainly to boil food.

A takatsuki is a dish with a long foot, used for serving food on.

A hachi is a round bowl shaped like a rice bowl, used to put or heap food in.

Yayoi pottery was fired by a method called open firing (noyaki).

In open firing, you place grass and wood around the pots on the ground and burn them.

It is thought that the pottery became hard because it was fired at a high temperature.

Yayoi pottery is said to have been influenced by technology from the continent.

The shapes and patterns of the pottery differ slightly by region and by period.

Scholars use those differences to work out the age and region of a site.

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