Stone crown - Sekka

Japanese: 石冠 - せっかん
Stone crown - Sekka

A polished stone tool in the shape of a crown. Because of its shape, it was given this name by researchers in the Meiji period and became common. This type of stone tool was illustrated under the name "Jindai stone" in "Unkonshi" Volume 3 by Kiuchi Sekitei, published in 1801 (Kyowa 1), and was also noted by Edo period enthusiasts.

In 1922 (Taisho 11), when Kashiwa Oyama and others excavated the Hiraki shell mound (late Jomon period) in Homi, Fukue Town, Aichi Prefecture (Tahara City), a stone crown was excavated from the top of the head, and it was thought to be a grave crown, but there are no other similar examples, so it seems more appropriate to call it a crown-shaped stone product. They have been discovered in ruins from the late and final Jomon culture in the Chubu region and east, and the ones from the late to early final period have different shapes from those from the final period. These are not practical items, but perhaps religious ceremonial items. In addition, many crude crown-shaped stone products made of porous andesite that are thought to have been used as stone plates have been excavated from ruins from the early Jomon period in the Uchiura Bay coastal area of ​​Hokkaido, but these are practical items that form a set with a grinding stone, and are stone products with a completely different purpose from the former, although they have similar shapes. In recent years, it has also been discovered at a late Jomon cultural site in Nishinoomote City, Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

[Esaka Teruya]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

冠(かんむり)状をした磨製石器。形状が冠に類似したため、明治時代の研究者によりいつしかこの名称でよばれ一般化した。この種の石器は1801年(享和1)刊の木内石亭(きうちせきてい)の『雲根志(うんこんし)』三にも「神代石」の名称で図示され、江戸時代の好事家にも注意されていた。

 1922年(大正11)大山柏(かしわ)らが愛知県福江(ふくえ)町保美(ほみ)(田原(たはら)市)の平城(ひらき)貝塚(縄文晩期)を発掘のとき、頭頂部から石冠が出土した例があり、副葬用の冠とも考えられたが、類例はほかになく、いちおう冠状石製品とよぶほうが妥当性が強いものと思われる。中部地方以東の縄文文化後期、晩期の遺跡から発見され、後期から晩期初頭にわたるものと、晩期末のものとは形態が異なる。これらは実用品ではなく、宗教的な儀仗(ぎじょう)用具であろうか。また北海道内浦湾沿岸地方では縄文前期の遺跡から多孔質安山岩製の石皿として使用したと思われる粗製の冠状石製品が多数出土しているが、これは磨石(すりいし)とセットをなす実用品で、前者とは形態上に類似点があるだけのまったく異なった用途の石製品である。近年、鹿児島県種子島(たねがしま)の西之表(にしのおもて)市の縄文文化後期の遺跡からも発見された。

[江坂輝彌]

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