Menda-style pottery - Menda-style pottery

Japanese: 免田式土器 - めんだしきどき

This pottery is named after the place name of the Menda region in Kuma County, Kumamoto Prefecture, and dates from the end of the middle Yayoi period to the early Kofun period. Around 1918, when the fields around Gengayashiki (the Honme ruins) in Honme, Menda Town were demolished to turn them into rice paddies, several dozen to over 100 pieces of intact pottery were discovered. Many of the long-necked jars had a double-arc pattern painted on the body, so they were called double-arc pattern pottery. Two pieces of pottery, a long-necked jar with a sawtooth pattern and a gourd-shaped piece, discovered at Gengayashiki in 1937, have been designated Important Cultural Properties.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

熊本県球磨郡免田地方の地名にちなんだ弥生時代中期末～古墳時代前期の土器。1918年ころ免田町本目の源が屋敷（げんがやしき）(本目遺跡という)一帯の畑を水田にするため地下げしたところ，数十～100個余りの完形土器が発見されたという。なかでも多くの長頸壺の胴部に重弧文（じゆうこもん）の文様が描かれていたところから，重弧文土器と呼ばれていた。37年に源が屋敷から発見された鋸歯文の長頸壺と瓢形（ひさごがた）土器の2個は重要文化財になっている。

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