Cylindrical clay figurine - Entoudogu

...In the later period, clay figurines began to appear in western Japan, where they had rarely been excavated until then. Late clay figurines were mainly found in the Kanto region, and in the first half of the period, there were heart-shaped clay figurines with heart-shaped faces and cylindrical clay figurines with faces attached to hollow cylinders. In the middle period, realistic mountain-shaped clay figurines with mountain-shaped heads were created, and from the latter half of the later period to the first half of the final period, a strange and symbolic clay figurine called an owl clay figurine was created. In western Japan, simple clay figurines were created from the middle to final period of the later period. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "cylindrical clay figurines" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…後期には，それまでほとんど出土していなかった西日本でもみられるようになる。後期の土偶は関東地方を中心に，前半には顔がハート形をしたハート形土偶，中空の円筒に顔をつけた円筒土偶があり，中葉には頭を山形にした写実的な山形土偶となり，後期後半から晩期前半にかけてミミズク土偶と呼ばれる怪異で象徴的な形態の土偶が作られた。西日本では後期中葉から晩期にかけて，簡略な土偶が作られていた。…

※「円筒土偶」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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