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A study on the Katashiro-Uma (the Miniature Figure of Horse)
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| Abstract | The religious faith of ancient Japan produced the custom of dedicating to gods a tiny earthen figure of horse. This custom generally is said to have been in fashion in the 7th and 8th century. I resea...rched in northern Kyushu the remains of those kilns in which the miniature figures of horse were made. The appearance of those kilns can go back to the latter half of the 6th century. I investigated, too, the examples of the figure of horse that were found out in various places of Kyushu. We are researching the religious services of the sea god in Okinoshima, an island of Fukuoka Prefecture. I pointed out that in these religious services many talc figures of horse were dedicated and this dedication was related to the traffic of Japanese envoy to the Tang dynasty. On the other hand, I adjusted the found materials of horse bone since the prehistoric age. I confirmed that the dedication of living horse was not practiced before the dedication of earthen figure of horse. Further I readjusted the materials pertaining to the horse appearing in Japanese culture of ancient tomb. The breeding of horse is the technique imported by naturalized subjects about in the first half of the 5th century. At that time the interest in the horse increased in connection with the dispatch of Japanese troops to Korea. Therewith the legend of dragon horse (竜馬) coming into fashion in ancient China was accepted in Japan. Thus the horse and the gods were connected, and people thought that the horse is the animal for gods to ride, and so the custom of dedicating horse in religious services was produced. At the 7th and 8th century the dedication of living and earthen horses was generalized in religious services of safety traffic, praying for rain and praying for fine weather.show more |
| Table of Contents | 一、序説 二、豊前における土馬の新資料 三、九州における土馬出土地 四、沖ノ島祭祠遺跡の石製馬代 五、古代馬骨出土資料とその研究史 六、古墳資料にあらわれた馬 七、古代祭祠における形代馬 |
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| Created Date | 2019.05.20 |
| Modified Date | 2020.09.28 |