Artworks

Figurine

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 3000 BCE–c. 2500 BCE · dogū · Keio University

An Early Jōmon figurine: a head with long hair and arms folded at the shoulders above a lower half shaped like an inverted phallus — an image of fertility and regeneration. 1 Mason 2005, p. 17, fig. 6. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.