Shakōkidogū
The shakōki dogū are Japanese figurines dating back to the Jōmon era. Dogū are made of clay and range from 3 cm to 40 cm tall.[1] They were created in the Jōmon period, which spanned from approximately 11,000 to 400 B.C.[2] There are multiple types of dogū, but pseudoarchaeological beliefs center around the shakōki dogū, or "goggle eye" type.
Artifact
Context
There are a few other types of dogū that were produced in the same time period. These include the pregnant woman type, the heart shaped type, and the horned owl type. Each have distinct body characteristics.
It is believed that the dogū had a personal ritual significance, as no evidence has been found of public ritual use.[3] Figurines are often found broken with an arm or a leg commonly missing.[4] Because of the frequency with which they are discovered broken, it is believed that breaking the dogū may have been part of a ritual.[5]
Pseudoarchaeology and Deconstruction
Pseudoarchaeological Narrative
Deconstruction
Torso is most important in representing a human, not the face.[6]
- ↑ Kaner, S. & Bailey D. (2009) The power of dogu: Ceramic figures, from ancient japan, 2009. British Museum Press.
- ↑ Insoll, T. (2012). The new hakodate jomon culture center, minamikayabe, japan. Material Religion, 8(2), 262-264.
- ↑ Pearson, R. (2004). New Perspectives on Jomon Society, Presented at the International Jomon Culture Conference, 2004.
- ↑ James, N. & Chippindale, J. (2010). Figurine enigmas: who's to know? Antiquity, 84(326), 1172-1176.
- ↑ Hudson, M.J. & Aoyama, M. (2007). Waist-to-hip ratios of Jomon figurines. Antiquity, 81(314), 961-971.
- ↑ Sumioka, H., Koda, K., Nishio, S., Minato, T., & Ishiguro, H. (2013). Revisiting ancient design of human form for communication avatar: Design considerations from chronological development of Dogū. Presented at The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Gyeongju, South Korea, 26-29 August 2013. IEEE.