Would it sound strange to say I was enlightened when I went recently to Ueno to meet "haniwa"? Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), ...

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An exhibition of ancient clay "haniwa" figures discovered around Japan kicked off on Oct. 16 at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Ueno district. Sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and other ...

When Japanese laborers were digging up a hillside to widen a highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the ...

Candidates for the "Gunma Hani-1 Grand Prix" popularity vote are seen. (Photo courtesy of Gunma Prefectural Government) MAEBASHI -- Online and postal voting for the most popular of 100 "haniwa," or ...

In Japan, burial mounds were constructed for powerful local leaders from around the third to the seventh century. Often, unglazed, earthenware figures known as haniwa were placed on and around the ...

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