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Jomon|ˈdʒəʊmən| Also Jōmon. [Jap.] Used attrib. in Jomon pottery to denote a kind of very early hand-made Japanese pottery; hence applied to the early neolithic or pre-neolithic culture which is characterized by this pottery.
1946G. B. Sansom Japan (rev. ed.) i. 1 Two main types of neolithic culture are distinguished. One is known as the Jōmon (‘rope-pattern’) type, because the pottery which characterises it was made by coiling or has a coil as conventional decoration. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 901/1 The Jomon is classified as Neolithic. Ibid., The Jomon (‘cord-pattern’) cultures have handmade pottery with patterns formed by rolling or pressing a cord-wrapped stick..into the still wet clay. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan vii. 156 The earliest Jomon pots are long pre-Ainu and are estimated to be upwards of 6,000 years old. 1970J. Kirkup Japan behind Fan 27 Rare Haniwa and Jomon figures. |