Kofun period

Map of Yamato state The Yamato court is known as the birthplace of the Japanese political state. It is a term applied to the political s...

There are no written records to tell us how the people of the Kofun Period lived, but from the many haniwa clay figurines and earthenware, as well as tumuli paintings, historians and archaeologists…

As I peered out the window from my vantage point on the 21st floor of the Sakai City Hall, in the distance I could see Abeno Harukas — Japan's tallest skyscraper, which houses a train station, hotel, museum, department store and offices. But this modern curiosity was not what I was looking for. I was...

Kushi-Matsuri (Kushi-festival)in Kyoto Japan. The Kofun period (AD.250?AD.592) costume & hairstyle. Men.

Japanese Clothing kofun Period

The Kofun period art,Haniwa terracotta clay figure. The man who wears the crown. Fukushima Japan.

Illustrator / Hiroyuki Suwahara. Illust of Keitai Tennou ( Emperor Keitai / Kofun period ).

During the Kofun period, the leaders of Yamato held sacred roles as powerful priest kings. Explosive agricultural growth during the last part of the third century, and the fruits thereof, gave the …

Clothes of the kofun era in Japan.

6: Haniwa figure of a warrior, earthenware, Kofun Period.

Early medieval Japanese soldiers

Kushi-Matsuri (Kushi-festival)in Kyoto Japan. The Kofun period (AD.250?AD.592) costume & hairstyle. Women.

A gala dress boy. The Kofun period art, Haniwa terracotta clay figure. The late 500s. Gunma Japan.

A restoration of military man who rode a horse. The late 500s. Kofun period.

Queen Himiko, also known as Pimiko or Pimiku (183? - 248 CE), was a 3rd-century CE ruler of the territory in ancient Japan known as Hsieh-ma-t'ai or Yamatai, later to be known as Yamato. Considered...

Kofun Period 'Haniwa', a form of archaic Japanese funerary statue.