Artworks

Dōtaku with designs of animals, plants and daily life

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 100 BCE–c. 300 · dōtaku · Tokyo National Museum

A pair of Late Yayoi bronze bells with reliefs in blocks: a praying mantis, dragonflies, a salamander, cranes, a turtle, a man shooting a deer, a hunter with dogs and a boar, a granary and two people pounding rice. 1 Mason 2005, p. 26, fig. 20. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.