前期古墳の副葬品にあらわれた文化の二相

Abstract

We find two cultural phases represented in the burial artifacts from the tombs of the early stage of proto-historic Japan. One includes Chinese bronze mirrors ; the other, both Japanese and Chinese mirrors. Moreover, in the latter there are jasper implements of armlet shape made in Japan, but in the former we find nothing of the sort. Most of the Chinese mirrors mentioned above were imported from Wei in the 3rd century. Mirror making took place in Japan in imitation of these imported mirrors. Therefore, one phase belong to the stage in which the people treated the imported implements as symbols of authority, while the other represents the stage in which they were able to make their treasures themselves. And these stages arc quite different from each other. The fact that we can classify these tombs into two categories, belonging to different cultural phases, leads us to presume that they were built in different times.