Jomon Pottery

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Jomon Pottery

• Dynamic Coil Pottery

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Anticipatory Set QW 3

• Read aloud Experience Clay article Discovering
  Jomon Ware, p. 58
• Answer the following question as you read
• Write a minimum 5-sentence paragraph describing
  three things you learned about the Jomon culture
  and their pottery.

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At the end of the slide presentation, you will be
able to. . .

• Define the word JOMON.
• Identify the style of Jomon ware.
• Describe how the islands coastal environment
  affected the style of Jomon ware.
• Describe why pottery from the Jomon culture is
  historically unique to hunting and gathering
  societies.

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Terms you should know

• Utilitarian forms emphasizing usefulness rather
  than beauty or ornamentation.
• Preliterate before the written word
• Jomon cord-impression pattern
• Hunter Gatherer Society paleolithic groups of
  people who depend on hunting and gathering for
  food. Usually nomadic.
• Agrarian Society groups of people who depend on
  tilling the soil to plant and harvest food.

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Beautiful Storage Containers

• Throughout history, potters have made beautiful
  containers out of clay.
• Ancient Egyptian canopic jars.
• Greek storage vessels.
• Why do you think these potters chose to decorate
  the surfaces of these functional forms?

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Jomon

• Preliterate Japanese culture
• 9000 to 300 B.C.E.
• First settlers
• Hunting and gathering society
• Elaborate storage pots for everyday use

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Jomon Design

• cord-impression pattern
• Surface coils
• Impressed lines
• Incised lines
• Red earthenware clay

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Jomons Distinctive Style

• A subtle reflection of its hunting and gathering
  society
• Ornate
• Fanciful
• Dramatic
• Created by women

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BUT, WAIT!

• Historically, clay vessels were not produced
  until people settled into agrarian ways of life!
• Since they were still hunters and gatherers, how
  did the Jomon potters have time to create such
  elaborate utilitarian forms?

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Answer Environment

• A chain of islands
• Protected from invaders by four seas
• Warm currents along S W shores create lush
  vegetation
• Cold currents along N E shores create abundant
  fishing
• Peace Abundance of Food low struggle
• Low struggle to survive time to artistically
  elaborate.

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Jomon-inspired Pottery
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Compare Original with Contemporary Interpretations
Jomon Ware
Doug Pringle
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