Ceramics from early Japan, the Jōmon

[@sherryzimmerman9220]

Excellent presentation….leaves us wanting to know more…..

[@FinnmacD]

Very cool piece of pottery, and it is good to see Steven and Beth back together!

[@mbkennedy]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

[@qus.9617]

Not sure if someone else mentioned this in the comments but the aesthetics of the Sheika culture in the Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was based off the Jomon culture.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

i was just about to say that

[@melizen2]

Thank you - this figurine is so unusual ~

[@blaisepotvien2785]

Wow I love this channel. Ceramics from all over the world all over time all look stylistically different. Creatives and artists are something else.

[@mercoledi_falco]

This Dogu(土偶 in japanese) is called Shakouki-Dogu(遮光器土偶). and it's the special feature that has the goggle-eyed. then i'm very interested in your expression “They look like Coffee Beans to me”!! Oh yes, That's it😄To me as a japanese, that can feel so flesh😊 Btw, A conversation with you two in the Tokyo National Museum, right? WoW! Welcome to here, japan🗾🇯🇵♡

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Its an exceptionally beautiful museum

[@mercoledi_falco]

and your channel@@smarthistory-art-historyis excellent😌

[@martijnkeisers5900]

This is truly stunning, I've never seen anything like it.

[@Simonjose7258]

SO weird! It's amazing! 3000 bc!? Wow.

[@yeuxdal]

Wow 😍

[@delusionsofgrandeur1330]

That second pot from the Jomon period is incredible. Wish you’d have featured that one!

[@aguilareal6967]

Wow original ❤❤❤

[@richlittlefield9761]

The open fire temperature would be around 700 C. 700 F would not be hot enough to fire the vessel.

[@louiscy]

The figurine is obviously Extra terrestrial👽

[@matthewpfeffer4569]

These ceramics inspired The Guardian creatures in video game “The Legends of Zelda: Breath of The Wild”

[@barrymoore4470]

You can also see their influence on the kodama figures in Hayao Miyazaki's 'Princess Mononoke'.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

⁠@@barrymoore4470the koroks were also inspired by the kodama

[@Sasha0927]

WOW I REALLY ENJOYED HEARING ABOUT HOW THE POT WAS MADE, I WONDER WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. lol. The circular pattern on the figurine made me think of the universe and the genesis of life. Technology wasn't available to see the Milky Way galaxy as we have now, so it's interesting.

[@barrymoore4470]

The deep bowl discussed here is so complex in its decoration that it must have been reserved for some ceremonial or ritual purpose. It was almost certainly not conceived with mundane practicality in mind. The fact that we find these artifacts fascinating and beautiful of course invites inference that their makers and original users or audience also derived aesthetic appreciation from them, but I think this was likely incidental to their creation. Their primary function was more likely to fulfill some ritual expectation.

[@c7261]

That could well be true, but I often see this attributed in archeology and art history. It often seems that if there is any doubt about a piece's purpose to just ascribe it as "ritualistic" 😆Given the prevalence of the term in historical research and no further evidence to it's ritualistic purposes, I just take it that when they say something is ritualistic is historians aren't certain of the object's purpose. And sometimes mundane and practical objects that we use today are filled with complex aesthetics. It's frustrating not to get definitive answers about a lot of these beautiful pieces.

[@AMorgan57]

There's a stunning beauty to these pots, a human genius that we all feel is elemental, expressive of who we are.

[@buddhahoo1]

The pot has a dragonfly on it front and center. At least that would be in native american art.