JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL AND RELIGION

RESEARCH REPORTS OF THE NARA NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, No. 57

KANEKO Hiroyuki, Editor

Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute (Nabunken) 1998

Table of Contents

Preface

TANAKA Migaku

Archaeology and Religion: With Reference to Jomon, Clay Figurines (Dogu)

ISOMAE jun’icni

Goddess during the jomon Period: Origins and Development of Jomon Clay Figurines

KOYAMA Shuzo

Archaeological Site of Water Ritual-Minamikidera Kofun Period site, Nara City

  MORISHITA Hiroyuki

Archaeology of Bird-Shaped Wooden Figurines of the Yayoi period: Current Issues and Prospects

SAKAI Ryuichi

Rituals Conducted in Front of Yayoi Period Jar Bunals in Northern Kyushu

  MIZOGUCHI Kouji

Yayoi Period Rituals Adopting Bronze Objects and their Decline

  IWANAGA Shozo

Archaeological Site of Water Ritual-Nango Ohigashi Kofun Period site, Nara Prefecture

  BAN Yasushi

Japanese Archaeology of “Royal Succession” during the Kofun Period

MIZUNO Masayoshi

Protecting Burial Precincts during the Kofun Period

  TAKAHASHI Katsuhisa

Beads (Tama) and Soul (Tamashii): Rituals Adopting Stone Objects in the Kofun Period

  SUGIYAMA Shigetsugu

Archaeological Site of Water Ritual-Jonokoshi and Rokudai-A Late Kofun Period sites, Mie Prefecture

HOZUMI Hiromasa

Archaeological Site of Purification Ritual-First Ward, Seventh Row Street, Eastern Sector, Nara Capital (A. D. 710-784)

USUKl Isao

Rituals Related to and Carried out in the Capital

KANEKO Hiroyuki

Rituals and Ancient Highways

YAMACHIKA Kumiko

Archaeological Site of Purification Ritual-Third Ward Seventh Row, Eastern Sector, Nagaoka Capital, Southwestern Kyoto (784-794)

  NAGAMUNE Shigeichi

Characteristics of Ancient Kamo Rituals

MIYAKE Kazuro

Archaeological Site of Purification Ritual-Hakaza site (early 9th century), Hyogo Prefecture

  OHIRA Shigeru

Land Breaking Rituals (8th to 10th centuries)

  MORI Ikuo

Medieval Death Ritual: With Special Reference to Manners for Placing Coffins

  FUJISAWA Fumihiko

Bibliography and Sources

Acknowledgements

Postscript

List of Contributors

English Table of Contents