About haniwa

Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period of the history of Japan. Haniwa were created using the wazumi technique, in which mounds of coiled clay were built up to shape the figure, layer by layer. The word haniwa can also refer to offering cylinders rather than the clay sculptures on top of them, as well as the "wooden haniwa" found in Kofun tumuli.

members

here now

Country: Japan

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Me via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

haniwa

funerary object buried with the dead

0members1here now

Ask Genius Site

Site Journal

Feed Discussions About

Sort by

Content type

Latest haniwa news and discussion

Sort by

Content type

Nothing published yet

The conversation starts anyway — post the first discussion above.

haniwa across IJR

Ask Genius by OpenServe about haniwa Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos

About haniwa

members

here now

Country: Japan

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Me via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Everything about haniwa →

Related journals

Connected

Japan

Live room · 1 here

Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.

Join the room

Related journals

Connected

Japan

haniwa across IJR

Ask Genius by OpenServe about haniwa Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos