Eastern Art: Japanese Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun Period - Group 6

When did the Jomon Period start?

• 14500 BCE

• 15400 BCE

• 300 BCE

• 2023

What was Jomon Pottery NOT created by?

• Handmade

• Machinery

• Tools

• Bonfire

Terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the kofun period is called…..

• Barbie

• Haniwa

• Dotaku

• Dogu

A clay figurine (Human & Animal) that comes from the Jomon period is….

• Dogu

• Takoyaki

• Kofun

• Dotaku

The name “Yayoi” from the Yayoi period originates from…….

• It does not originate from anything

• A neighborhood in Tokyo, where the first artifact was found

• A digsite

• The founder of the first artifact

Like the Jomon Period, the Yayoi people started making their pottery by….

• Coiling the clay

• Shaping the clay

• Burning the clay

• Smithing the clay

Unlike the Jomon period, the people of the Yayoi period started making settlements and learned how to cast bronze to forge tools, weapons, and other various objects. Some in particular are richly decorated bronze bells used in rituals. What are these bells named?

• Cleansing Bell

• Cattle Bell

• Dōtaku

• Kyushu Beru

Sueki is the name of the potteries that were made by the settlers in the middle of the Kofun period. However, this technique to produce potteries with high temperature using the potter’s wheel does not originate from Japan. In which nation did this technique originate?

• China

• Korea

• Japan

• Russia

In the Kofun period, the Japanese commonly used armor that consists of an iron helmet, a chest piece with leather laced on the wearer's body, and bronze for decoration. What is this armor called?

• Anti Quirras

• Keiko

• Tanko

• Tenshukaku

The Kofun period is defined by the existence of the Kofun. It was a structure that took the form of earthen mounds with the shape of a keyhole. What exactly was it for?

• Mass burial for those who died in battle

• A sacred gateway to the afterlife for the deceased

• Resting place for Orobashi the Great Serpent

• Burial for members of the ruling class