Jomon pottery

This event invites three contemporary Japanese ceramic artists to discuss Jōmon pottery, its techniques, styles, and cultural significance in Japan. Being the oldest art form dated from 10,500 BC to 300 BC, Jōmon pottery reveals the lifestyles, cultures and beliefs from the Neolithic period. Since its discovery in the late 19thcentury, the diverse and mysterious potteries shaped the discourse on the origin of the civilization and cultural identity in Japan even to today. Artists in popular…

This autumn sees a rare exhibition that explores the art and culture of the Jomon era (11,000-400 BC). It is 20 years since the last exhibition was held in Paris in 1998. The show comprises 64 piec…

Japanese ceramic art taken from a new exhibition at London's British Museum.

Experience unbelievable art from the Stone Age in Yamanashi, Japan.

Although the people of the prehistoric Jōmon period were hunter-gatherers, they had a highly developed society and culture, much of which was passed on to later residents of the Japanese archipelago.

The Jomon Period is the earliest identifiable period in Japanese history and is broken into several categories—Incipient, Early, Middle, and Late.

photos by Kenji Agata Jomon-era pottery, created roughly 4000-5000 years ago, is considered to be the oldest pottery in Japan. Jomon (縄文) literally means "rope-patterned" and as the name implies, much of the pottery was elaborately designed with coils and imprints, rendering them more decorative

Jomon, meaning “cord-marked,” refers to the impressions left from rolling braided or twisted ropes across the surface of moist clay vessels in the Neolithi...

The pottery vessels crafted in ancient Japan during the Jomon period are generally accepted as the oldest known form of pottery making in th...

Late Jomon period (5th - 3rd century BC)