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【土器・土偶の原日本的感性 日本列島37,000年史-19】




縄文期が日本列島で始まって最初に作られるようになった文化は土器。
堅果類などの食物を貯蔵する目的での「容器」として
最初期の道具として発達していったモノでしょう。
列島の土壌中に普遍的に存在する粘土に水分を含ませて帯状にして
それを積み重ねていって造形したことが想像される。
土器は列島各地域で独特の形状が発掘されるという。
歴史萌芽期、奈良盆地纏向遺跡からは全国各地の特徴的な土器が出土するけれど、
たぶん全国各地域勢力から集結した人々が各地の産品を持参し
交易した残滓なのではないかと思われている。(連載のなかで触れていく予定)
列島各地域で微妙に変化する土壌成分とその産品に合わせて
独特の土器が作られていったことだろう。
その技術が基盤になって、徐々に精神性を表現する土偶が作られていった。
縄文の世の人々の感受性や祈り、願いというような素朴な思いが
こうした土偶には込められていったのだろうと思える。
ラディカルな表現作家として著名な岡本太郎は、この土偶に強いインパクトを受けた。
弥生社会ではこうした祈りの象徴は墳墓周辺を飾った埴輪に変容していくけれど、
埴輪が非常に「のっぺりとした」表現であるのに対して
土偶はゴツゴツとした呪術的な表現、デフォルメされた象徴性を感じさせられる。
岡本太郎的直感から原日本人的心性をそこに見たのだろう。
その見立てに対して、青春期以来わたしは同意する気分で生きてきた。

こういう「象徴表現」は祭政の一端を表現するとされるので、
縄文の定住が進化して行った段階でも呪術・宗教的な仮託物だったと思う。
権力者の墳墓と埴輪にはその後の仏教伝来で代替された政治性表現が強い。
縄文の世の土偶も、各地域ごとの祭政の用に供された可能性が高い。
精神・象徴性・祭祀の表現物であったことは疑いない。
帯状の粘土素材から表情を表現したと考えると印象に納得感が出てくる。
そう考えていくと土偶とは日本的八百万の神性がそこに込められているのか。
いかにも土着的な、地面から生み出されたような表現。
土偶の表現テーマとして最多のように思えるのはやはり人間の再生産、
子どもを出産する母性、母体をデフォルメしたカタチ。
祭祀というよりも祈りに近い感情の表現されたものとして
妊娠した女体をイメージする土偶が作られ続けたのではないか。
人々が祭祀ということを集団の結束のツールとして導入していくとき、
成員全員が同意できる象徴物・テーマとして母体・母性が採択されたのか。
「原始,女性は太陽であった」という思想なのかも。
日本の伝承の皇祖神・アマテラスが女性神であることと通底するのだろうか。
土偶とアマテラスの間にある深いミッシングリンク。
後世、弥生の世になって国家概念が広がっていったとき、
アマテラスが女性神になったのには、こうした土着概念を利用して行ったのかも。
こういう見方に徐々に傾いてきている現在であります。

English version⬇

The Original Japanese Sensibility of Earthenware and Clay Figures: The 37,000-Year History of the Japanese Archipelago – 19
The thematic universality of the female body bearing a child as an expression of the emergence period of Mura-integrated rituals. The missing link between clay figurines and the myth of Amaterasu. The Missing Link between Clay Figure and the Myth of Amaterasu.

Earthenware was the first culture to be created when the Jomon period began in the Japanese archipelago.
These were the first tools developed as “containers” for storing hard fruits and other foodstuffs.
These were probably the first tools to be developed.
Clay, which is ubiquitous in the soil of the archipelago, was moistened to form strips of clay, which were then piled on top of each other to form the vessel.
The clay, which is ubiquitous in the soil of the archipelago, was piled on top of each other to form the vessel.
Unique shapes of earthenware are said to have been excavated in each region of the archipelago.
In the budding historical period, distinctive earthenware from all regions of Japan was excavated from the Sumamukai site in the Nara Basin, but it is not clear whether the earthenware was made by a group of people from all regions of Japan.
It is thought that they are probably remnants of the products of the people who gathered from various regions of the country and brought with them products from each region.
The pottery is thought to be the remnants of trade between people from different regions of Japan who brought products from their respective regions. (This will be discussed in a series of articles.)
It is likely that unique earthenware was made to match the soil composition and products of each region of the archipelago, which varied slightly from region to region.
The unique earthenware was probably made in accordance with the slightly changing soil composition and products of each region of the archipelago.
The techniques used to make clay figurines gradually became the foundation for the creation of clay figurines expressing spirituality.
The Jomon people’s sensitivities, prayers, and wishes were expressed in these clay figurines.
The Jomon people’s sensitivities, prayers, and wishes must have been expressed in these clay figurines.
Taro Okamoto, a well-known radical artist, was strongly influenced by these clay figurines.
In Yayoi society, such symbols of prayer were transformed into haniwa (clay figurines) that decorated the tombs and their surroundings.
Haniwa clay figurines are very “plain” in their expression.
Haniwa are very “plain”, whereas Dogu (clay figurines) are very rugged, spellbinding, and symbolic in a deformed way.
Taro Okamoto’s intuition may have led him to see in them a proto-Japanese mentality.
Since my youth, I have been in the mood to agree with this view.

Since this kind of “symbolic expression” is said to express a part of ritual politics, it is not surprising that the Jomon settlements have evolved.
I think that even in the stage of evolution of Jomon settlement, they were magical/religious objects.
The tombs of the powerful and haniwa clay figurines have a strong political expression that was replaced by the introduction of Buddhism later.
It is highly likely that clay figurines of the Jomon period were also used for ritual politics in each region.
There is no doubt that clay figurines of the Jomon period were objects expressing spirituality, symbolism, and rituals.
The impression becomes more convincing when we consider that the clay material in the shape of a band was used to express facial expressions.
In this way, do clay figurines contain the Japanese divinity of 8,000,000?
The expression is very indigenous, as if it was created from the ground.
The most common themes of expression for clay figurines are the reproduction of human beings, the motherhood of giving birth to a child, and the mother’s love for her child.
The most common theme of clay figurines is the reproduction of human beings, motherhood giving birth to a child, and the deformed form of the mother’s body.
Clay figurines express emotions more akin to prayer than to ritual.
The clay figurines with the image of a pregnant female body may have continued to be made as an expression of feelings similar to prayer, rather than as a form of ritual.
When people introduced rituals as a tool for group cohesion
When people introduced ritual as a tool for group cohesion, did they adopt motherhood and motherhood as a symbol or theme that all members of the group could agree on?
Perhaps it is the idea that “in the primitive times, women were the sun.
Is this a similarity to the fact that Amaterasu, the ancestral goddess of Japanese folklore, is a female deity?
This is a deep missing link between the clay figurines and Amaterasu.
In later times, when the concept of nationhood spread in the Yayoi period
Amaterasu may have used this indigenous concept to become a female deity.
I am now gradually leaning toward this viewpoint.

【土地計画・ムラの「掟」の発現 日本列島37,000年史-18】




縄文の人類、その「社会」発展の様子の「見える化」。
その後、弥生以降の社会の基盤はこの1万年を超える縄文期が作った。
列島社会の精神史として考えるとその奥行きに戦慄する。
こういう領域に現代の探究が到達しつつあることが喜ばしい。

定住ということはそれ以前と以降を完全に分離するエポック。
国立歴史民俗博物館展示では従来、カンタンにしか触れられていなかった
この歴史段階について非常に革新的な探究がされている。
わたし個人で言えば、青年期に左翼思想の洗礼を受けたときのインパクト、
人類社会の科学的発展という基礎的な刷り込み「原始共産社会」
マルクス・エンゲルスが主唱したひとつの理想郷概念が
まったく「神話」にしか過ぎないことが「科学的に」解明されてきていると
受け止めることができたと思っています。
冷静に人類社会の発展経緯を考古的手法と炭素年代法を駆使して
解明して行くことでそういう「呪縛」から解放されていくのだと思います。
移動生活段階から定住がはじめられるとそれまでとはまったく違った
「社会」としての規則・ルールというものが自然に成立していった。
移動生活では「その場所から逃げる」という手段で解決してきた
「食糧の欠乏・ゴミ処理・伝染病対応・人間関係トラブル」などについて
社会としてしっかり対策していく必要性が高まって、
上の図のように、まずは土地利用のルール化が進展した。
食糧の備蓄機能の拡充、共同生活圏の創造であるムラ集落の出現。
ゴミ処理場所のルール化で伝染病対策も共同意思決定していった。
その発展に当たっては当然、移動生活段階での「知見」が大いに反映しただろう。
それまでは外界から目的への最適空間を「探す」という行為が主体だったものが、
より積極的に「自ら作り出す」という営為に置き換わっていった。
受動的環境適合から能動的な環境改変へのパラダイムシフト。

そのような営為の中から上のジオラマのようなムラが出現した。
「東京下宅部遺跡」の復元イメージ。東京都東村山市多摩湖町で展開された遺跡。
〜縄文時代後期晩期(約4,000から3,000年前)の遺構・遺物が数多く発見された。
川の流れ跡から木材を組み合わせた施設や多量の縄文土器や石器、丸木舟未製品や
丸木弓・飾り弓・木製容器、編み物の木製品、当時の食生活や自然環境を物語る、
シカ・イノシシの骨やトチノキ・クルミなどの植物が大量に出土した。〜
1万年以上の歳月をかけてこのような集落・ムラ社会を列島人類は創造した。
こういう生活圏形成の延長線上で次代の「農耕」弥生社会が受容されていく。
一方でこういう社会生活の中で統合の精神性とはいったいどうであったのか?
社会規範としての精神性、呪術や祭祀というものも強い根拠を持っていただろう。
祭政という一体の形而上規範が成立していったことも見えてくる。・・・

English version⬇

Settlement and the emergence of the Mura “code” 37,000 Years of the Japanese Archipelago – 18]
Rational solutions to food scarcity, garbage disposal, infectious disease response, and human relations problems. Land use planning and village rules. Visualization of Jomon. The Jomon Period.

Jomon humans, and the “visualization” of their “social” development.
Subsequently, the foundation of society after the Yayoi period was laid during this Jomon period, which lasted over 10,000 years.
The depth of the Jomon period, when considered as the spiritual history of the archipelago’s society, makes one shudder.
It is gratifying to see that modern exploration is reaching into this area.

Settlement is an epoch that completely separates the pre and post Jomon periods.
The National Museum of Japanese History exhibit is a very innovative look at this stage of history, which has traditionally been only touched upon in a cursory manner.
The exhibit at the National Museum of History and Folklore presents a very innovative exploration of this historical stage, which has been only briefly touched upon in the past.
For me personally, the impact of my baptism into leftist ideology in my youth, and the
The basic imprint of the scientific development of human society, “primitive communist society
The concept of a utopia, one of the main concepts advocated by Marx and Lenin, is nothing more than a “myth” at all.
I believe that it is now being “scientifically” elucidated that it is nothing more than a “myth” at all.
I believe that we are now able to accept it.
By calmly elucidating the development of human society using archaeological methods and carbon dating
I believe that we will be freed from such a “spell” if we continue to elucidate the development process of human society using archaeological methods and carbon dating.
I believe that we can free ourselves from such a “spell” by using archaeological methods and carbon dating to understand how human societies developed over time.
The rules and regulations of society were naturally established.
In the mobile life, the solution to the problem was to “escape from the place.
Food shortages, garbage disposal, infectious diseases, human relations problems, etc.
The need for society to take firm measures to deal with these problems has increased.
As shown in the figure above, the first step was to establish rules for land use.
The stockpiling function of food was expanded, and the “village community” emerged as a way of creating a communal living area.
Rules were established for garbage disposal sites, and communal decisions were made regarding infectious disease control.
Naturally, the development of the community was greatly influenced by the “knowledge” gained during the mobile life stage.
Until then, the main activity was to “search” for the best space for one’s goal from the outside world, but now, people are more actively engaged in “creating their own space.
The act of “searching” for the best space for one’s goal from the outside world until then was replaced by the more active act of “creating one’s own space.
A paradigm shift from passive adaptation to active modification of the environment.

The above diorama is the result of such activities.
The explanation was that it was a reconstructed image of the “Tokyo Shimo-Yakubu Ruins.
It is said to be a site that developed in Tamako-cho, Higashimurayama City, Tokyo.
〜The research to date has uncovered many remains and artifacts dating back to the late Jomon Period (approximately 4,000 to 3,000 years ago).
The remains of the river flow at that time revealed facilities made of wood, a large amount of Jomon pottery and stone tools, unmade round wooden boats, round wooden bows, decorative bows, and wooden bows and arrows.
Wooden products such as round wooden bows, decorative bows, wooden containers, and knitted goods, as well as bones of deer and wild boar, which tell of the diet and natural environment of the time, were also found.
Deer and wild boar bones and plants such as horse chestnut and walnut were excavated in large quantities. 〜The site has been in the area for more than 10,000 years.
Over a period of more than 10,000 years, the human beings of the archipelago created such settlements and village societies.
The next generation of “agricultural” Yayoi society was accepted as an extension of this kind of living area formation.
On the other hand, what was the spirituality of integration in this kind of social life?
Spirituality as a social norm, witchcraft, and rituals must have had a strong basis.
We can also see the establishment of a unified metaphysical norm of ritual government. …

【移動から定住へ人類的文化変容 日本列島37,000年史-17】



わたしたちは歴史を学んでいるけれど、それは文字に記録された以降が中心。
史という文字自体「できごとを書きしるした書。時勢の変遷・発達の過程の記録。」
という解釈が一般的であり、もっと深いところでの語彙的には
「書きしるす役人。書き役。ふびと。文章にたずさわる人。」という語感。
そもそも文字とは農耕社会の必要性から発生したモノと考えられるので
それ以前の移動生活についての解明動機には即していない。
そして文字記録によって人類の思考法も大変容したに違いなく、
「学習する」営為に対して最適化された思考体系のように思える。
どうもこの「移動生活から定住生活」へのパラダイムシフトの意味合いが
十分に自覚的なレベルになっていないように思えてならない。
思考のツールとしての文字自体が定住・農耕社会以降の人類体験であって
それ以前の人類的思考方法について考えるときに適していないようにも思える。

現生人類でも7-8万年の時間、それ以前の人類時間数百万年、
わたしたちの潜在意識領域、DNA領域では移動生活がアプリオリ。
最初の写真図のように類人猿種として移動が普遍的なのだ。
定住はどう考えても1-2万年程度の「ごく最近」はじめたことは明らかなのだ。
しかし、人類進化の相当大部分は定住以降に発現した。
定住にはそれだけの大進化を促すものがあったということができる。
日本列島というわかりやすい環境の中でこの大進化もあったことで
わたしたちは具体的にこの領域を解明することができるのではないか。

そんなことに考えが向かっていて、気付かされたのが上のパネル。
上には「これまで人類は食糧不足、ゴミ処理、伝染病、対人関係トラブルなどの
さまざまな問題を、自ら移動することによって解決してきた」とある。
・・・すごいヒントに満ちているのではないか。
温暖化によって食糧確保の手段が大変化したことで定住の方が合理的になった。
基底的にはこの条件変化が最大要因だろう。
それ以外の問題については「逃げること」での解決が人類普遍だったけれど
そのことに人類は正面から向き合うことを余儀なくされたとも考えられる。

もちろん食糧確保についてもこのジオラマのような事実があっただろう。
貯蔵という主目的が発生したことで日本列島での定住とワンセットの
「縄文土器」の出現とが劇的に符合する。

そして定住後に発生した「社会」ではさまざまな移動生活との相違、
考え方レベルのパラダイムシフトに対応して根底的変化が生まれていったのだろう。
移動生活では先験的に解決できていた問題が
様相を変えて人類に襲いかかり、そこからの解決策を人類は模索した。
そのことがさまざまな社会ルールの創始、
そして祭祀・集団的精神性への意識集中にもなったと思える。

English version⬇

The 37,000-Year History of the Japanese Islands: The Transformation of Human Culture from Migration to Settlement.
The emergence of “storage” earthenware coincided with settlement. The dramatic shift in diet resulted in a head-on confrontation with a problem that had been solved naturally by migration.

We study history, but it is mainly what has happened since it was recorded in writing.
The word “history” itself is “a written record of events. A record of the process of change and development of the times.
In a deeper lexical sense, the word “history” is generally interpreted as “a written record of events.
The term “history” itself is generally interpreted as “a record of events written in writing. A written official. A person who takes part in writing. A person engaged in writing. The word “scribe” is used to refer to a person who is involved in the writing process.
Writing is thought to have arisen out of the necessity of an agricultural society, so it is not in line with the motive for elucidating the mobile life before that.
It is not in line with the motive of elucidating the mobile life of people before that time.
The human way of thinking must have been greatly transformed by the written records, and it is not possible to optimize the activity of learning.
It seems to be a thought system optimized for the activity of “learning.
It seems that the implications of this paradigm shift from a mobile life to a sedentary life have not yet reached a sufficiently conscious level.
I do not think that the significance of this paradigm shift from a mobile to a sedentary life has yet to reach a sufficiently conscious level.
Writing itself, as a tool for thinking, is a human experience after sedentary and agrarian societies.
It does not seem to be suitable for thinking about the human way of thinking before that time.

Even the present humans have been living for 70,000-80,000 years, and the millions of years of human time before that.
In our subconscious and DNA realms, mobile life is a priori.
As shown in the first photo, migration is universal for ape species.
It is clear that settlement began “very recently,” in the order of 10,000 to 20,000 years.
However, a significant portion of human evolution occurred after settlement.
It can be said that settlement had something to promote such a large evolutionary change.
The fact that this great evolution also took place in the easy-to-understand environment of the Japanese archipelago makes it possible for us to elucidate this area in concrete terms.
We may be able to elucidate this area in concrete terms.

As my thoughts turned to this, I was reminded of the two panels above.
The top panel reads, “Up to now, humans have solved various problems such as food shortage, waste disposal, infectious diseases, and interpersonal problems by moving around on their own.
human beings have solved various problems such as food shortage, garbage disposal, infectious diseases, and interpersonal problems by moving around by themselves”.
This is a great hint, isn’t it?
Global warming has made it more rational for people to settle down as the means of securing food has become more difficult.
This change in conditions is probably the most important factor.
As for other problems, “escape” has been the universal human solution.
It can be thought that humanity was forced to face these issues head-on.

Of course, there would have been facts like this diorama about food security.
The main purpose of food storage was the emergence of the “Jomon Pottery,” a set of tools used for settling in the Japanese archipelago, and the emergence of the Jomon Earthenware.
The appearance of “Jomon earthenware” dramatically coincides with the main purpose of storage.

The “society” that emerged after the settlement of the islands was different from the mobile lifestyle, and it corresponded to a paradigm shift in the level of thinking.
The “society” that emerged after the settlement of the islands must have gradually undergone fundamental changes in response to the paradigm shift in the level of thinking and to the various differences from the mobile lifestyle.
Problems that had been solved a priori in the mobile life
The problems that could be solved a priori in the mobile lifestyle were transformed, and humanity sought solutions to them.
This led to the creation of various social rules
and the concentration of consciousness on rituals and collective spirituality.

【縄文照葉樹林が日本の母体 日本列島37,000年史-16】




〜「定住生活のはじまり」
本格的な定住生活の開始によって人々は「移動」以外の方法で
さまざまな問題を解決する必要に迫られた。
動植物利用技術の発達や計画的な土地利用、生活規範の整備、
呪術・祭祀の発達など社会の複雑化・高度化は定住がもたらした。〜
鹿児島県上野原遺跡では9500年前くらいから大きな集落が形成されていた。
「定型化」された竪穴住居や屋外炉などが発見されている。
残念ながらこの遺跡は「鬼界カルデラ」大噴火(約7,300年前)で衰退した。
縄文の集住集落では照葉樹林から多くの「建築資材」が石斧で切り出され
社会的な建築組織・集団の存在も彷彿させるような
「規格住宅」的な痕跡が見られるというのですね。
「石斧での伐採」という説明パネルがあったけれど、
人間社会の形成は同時に「分業」的な労務分担が進んだことも自明。
前面の海から漁撈を専門として食物獲得する人々もいただろうし、
一方で住宅や土木・丸木舟制作などで「木を使って」ものづくりすることが
専門化したことも当然想像可能。
当たり前だけれど、定住と「家づくり」技術発達は一体のもの。
結果として「竪穴」という温熱環境重視型の家づくりが主流になった。
竪穴形式は自然発生的だったのは世界の遺跡でも普遍的ということからわかる。
日本列島でも東日本、北海道でも同様に作られた。
鹿児島という南国でも寒冷地・北海道でも共通だった。


集落と定住が始まることで同時に祭祀も始められる。
鹿児島では土器の坪を土中に埋める祭祀が行われ
千葉県取掛西貝塚ではイノシシやシカの頭骨を集積した祭祀が行われた。
集住してさまざまな機能分担することが進行すると同時期に
祭祀はそうした社会の結合をより強めるものとして機能したように考えられる。
日本的八百万の神という祖型を見る思いがしてくる。
ウォーターフロントと後背の照葉樹林という独立的な生活圏形成は
この八百万の神と通底する文化構造のように思われますね。
ウォーターフロントが生活圏であったことは、貝塚を必然化させる。
海産資源のうち、もっとも始原的なのは貝類であろうことは間違いない。
前浜で貝を拾えば集落成員のその日の必要採取量が獲得できたと思う。
その残骸として各地に貝塚が遺されていく。
縄文の世の社会構造が、日本という国の原型を作ったことが見えてくる。

浦島太郎の説話には、こういった背景文化圏の想定がごく自然。
こういう「海洋国家」という概念は人類的には珍しいと思える。
少なくとも東アジア圏では農耕が発展した大河川流域での中華国家など
大陸型・征服型王朝の考え方が主流だっただろうけれど、
そういう考え方からは相当に異質な思考ベースが列島社会には根付いていた。
こういう八百万の社会認識は平和国家の基盤とも思われる。

English version⬇

Jomon’s Shoreline Forest is the Mother of Wooden Construction 37,000 Year History of the Japanese Archipelago – 16
Urashima Taro is an expression of the roots of the Japanese people. The one-set settlement of the sea and mountains in the archipelago is a maritime nation type. The settlement created the division of labor and the development of wooden construction technology. The development of wood construction technology.

〜The Beginning of Settled Life
With the start of full-scale settlement, people were forced to solve various problems
The development of plant and animal utilization technology, planned land use
The development of plant and animal husbandry techniques, planned land use, the development of norms for daily life, and the development of magic and rituals all contributed to the complexity and sophistication of society.
The development of plant and animal husbandry technology, planned land use, the development of norms for daily life, and the development of magic and rituals were all brought about by settlement. ~.
At the Uenohara site in Kagoshima Prefecture, a large settlement was formed around 9,500 years ago.
A “standardized” pit dwelling and an outdoor furnace have been found at the site.
Unfortunately, this site was decimated by the great eruption of the “Kikai Caldera” (about 7,300 years ago).
In Jomon settlements, many “building materials” were quarried from the evergreen forests with stone axes.
The existence of a social architectural organization or group is also reminiscent of the Jomon settlements.
The Jomon settlements were also said to have traces of “standardized housing,” reminiscent of the existence of a social building organization or group.
There was a panel explaining the “stone axe logging.
It is obvious that the formation of human society was accompanied by a “division of labor.
There must have been people who specialized in fishing and obtaining food from the sea in front of the house, and on the other hand, there must have been people who specialized in housing, civil engineering, and logging.
On the other hand, it is also possible to imagine that people specialized in “working with wood” for housing, civil engineering, and the production of wooden boats.
It is also possible to imagine that they specialized in “working with wood” for housing, civil engineering, boat building, and so on.
It is natural, but settlement and the development of “house-building” technology are one and the same.
As a result, the “pit” style of house building, which emphasizes thermal environment, became the mainstream.
The fact that the pit style was a spontaneous development is evident from the fact that it is universal among archaeological sites around the world.
In the Japanese archipelago, they were built in eastern Japan and Hokkaido as well.
It was common both in Kagoshima, a southern country, and in Hokkaido, a cold region.

With the beginning of settlements and settlement, rituals were initiated at the same time.
In Kagoshima, rituals were held to bury tsubos of earthenware in the ground.
At Torikake-nishi Shell Mound in Chiba Prefecture, rituals were held to collect the skulls of wild boars and deer.
At the same time that various functions were being shared among people living in clusters, rituals were also being performed to promote social cohesion and to promote the sharing of various functions.
Rituals seem to have functioned as a way to strengthen such social bonds.
This is the ancestral form of the Japanese “8,000,000 gods.
The formation of independent spheres of life along the waterfront and in the shiny-leaved forests in the hinterland
The independent living area formation of the waterfront and the terrestrial forests in the background seems to be a cultural structure that is commonly associated with the eight million deities.
The fact that the waterfront was a living area makes shell mounds inevitable.
Of all the marine resources, shellfish are undoubtedly the most primitive.
I think that picking up shellfish on the foreshore would have provided the community members with the necessary amount for that day’s gathering.
Shell middens were left behind as remnants of these shell middens in various locations.
The social structure of the Jomon period is the prototype for the nation of Japan.

In the legend of Urashima Taro, the assumption of such a background cultural sphere is quite natural.
This kind of concept of a “maritime nation” seems to be rare in human terms.
At least in the East Asian sphere, such as the Chinese nation in a large river basin where agriculture developed.
In East Asia at least, the idea of continental and conquering dynasties, such as the Chinese state in a large river basin where agriculture was developed, would have been the mainstream.
However, the archipelago society was rooted in a thought base that was quite different from such a way of thinking.
This kind of social recognition of the eight million people is thought to be the foundation of a peaceful nation.

【照葉樹の森の「食物多様性」 日本列島37,000年史-15】



日本列島は周囲を海に囲まれるウォーターフロントと高峻な山岳地形。
国土面積は小さいけれど、人類の居住環境として考えれば
前面の海または河川の水辺と、後背の照葉樹林という環境は
非常に恵まれていたのではないかと思える。
他の地域、東アジアの大陸地域・中国などではいち早く農耕が始まるけれど
見方を変えれば日本列島ではそうなる強い必然性がなかったとも思える。
大型動物種が狩猟によって徐々に減少していったのに対応して
より小動物種を獲得する弓矢が発達していくけれど、
基本的な動物タンパク源は水辺での魚類がメインになっていったのでしょう。
そして気候の温暖化にともなってウォーターフロントに沿って
大きく広がった照葉樹林帯からの多様な植物性栄養源の摂取習慣が強まった。
まさに「海の幸、山の幸」という環境。
日本列島の民話に特徴的な2元論の素地が広範に広がったのだろう。
こういう生活実相が広く、そして永く列島社会では続いたのだと思う。

図は「南九州の集落と植物利用」というパネル。以下文章説明。
〜14,000年前、温暖な南九州ではいち早く竪穴住居や煙道付き炉穴などを伴う
定住的な集落が作られた。宮崎県王子山遺跡では炭化したドングリや球根類の発見。
石皿・磨石や土器を使ってアクのあるドングリを食べる方法をすでに身に付けていた。
野生のマメ類も重要な食料のひとつだった。〜

〜石皿・磨石の利用。縄文のはじめ頃の遺跡で植物の
「粉砕・加工具〜石皿・磨石」が見つかるのは列島の中でも南九州だけ。
急激に実現した温暖化に伴う落葉照葉樹の豊かな森のめぐみを
いち早く「開発」したのは南九州の人々だった。〜
植物栄養源を経口摂取可能なように「工夫」していくという思惟作業が
列島人に特徴的なこころ、大きな精神領域を形成していったと想像できる。
丹念に採取経験を積み重ねて原料を確保し、それに多段階の加工工程を加える。
食物獲得にあたってこのような繊細な作業を繰り返す心的運動性。
日本人の精神性のどこかにDNA的に仕舞い込まれていると思える。
ものづくりの基盤的思考性に関わっているように思えるのです。

人類と摂取栄養源との関係での精神文化性。
地球上の他の地域とは大きく相違するかなり特殊な環境が列島にはあった。
イラスト表現されたような母と娘の相伝で伝わってきた食物創造の営為に、
なにか深く癒される精神性を感じさせられるものがある。
旧石器時代の「ばっかり食」習慣から進化発展した多様な食習慣。
照葉樹の森がわたしたちの精神性を育んだ最大の根源なのではないか。
こういう部分に強いルーツ感がただよってくる。・・・

English version⬇

Food Diversity in Evergreen Forests: The 37,000-Year History of the Japanese Archipelago – 15
The food materials of the broadly spread broadleaf forests. The food materials of the ever-expanding evergreen forests were discovered and transformed into food through a series of complex and exquisite processing efforts. The basis of thinking for manufacturing ingenuity. Food Diversity

The Japanese archipelago has a waterfront surrounded by the sea and steep mountainous terrain.
Although the land area is small, when considered as an environment for human habitation
The Japanese archipelago is small in terms of land area, but as a habitat for human beings, it is thought to have been extremely blessed with a waterfront environment of oceans and rivers in the foreground
and the terrestrial forests in the rear must have been very blessed.
In other regions, such as continental East Asia and China, agriculture began early.
In other regions, such as continental East Asia and China, agriculture began early, but there was no strong necessity for this to happen in the Japanese archipelago.
In response to the gradual decline of large animal species through hunting
The basic source of animal protein was water.
The basic source of animal protein was probably fish from the waters.
And as the climate warmed, the area along the waterfront
The warming of the climate has led to an increase in the intake of a variety of plant sources of nutrition from the broad expanse of broadleaf forests along the waterfront.
This is truly a “food from the sea, food from the mountains” environment.
The dualism characteristic of Japanese folklore must have spread over a wide area.
I believe that this type of lifestyle continued to prevail in the archipelago for a long time.

The figure is a panel titled “Settlements and Plant Use in Southern Kyushu”. The following is a textual explanation.
〜In the warm climate of southern Kyushu, settled settlements with pit dwellings and furnace pits with flue were established as early as 14,000 years ago.
Settlements with pit dwellings and furnace pits with flue were established in the warmer southern Kyushu region ~14,000 years ago. Carbonized acorns and bulbs were discovered at the Ojiyama site in Miyazaki Prefecture.
The people had already learned how to eat acorns with their acrid taste using stone plates, polished stones, and earthenware.
Wild legumes were also an important food source. ~.

~Use of stone plates and polished stones. Only in Southern Kyushu in the archipelago can one find “crushing and processing tools – stone plates and polished stones
Only in Southern Kyushu in the archipelago can one find “crushing and processing tools – stone plates and polished stones.
It was the people of Minami-Kyushu who were the first to “develop” the rich forests of deciduous evergreen trees that accompanied the rapid warming of the earth.
It was the people of Minami-Kyushu who were the first to “develop” the richness of deciduous evergreen forests that accompanied the rapid global warming. ~.
The thought process of “devising” plant nutrient sources that can be taken orally
The thought process of “devising” plant nutrition sources that could be ingested orally formed the unique mind of the archipelago’s people, and a large spiritual realm.
The process of obtaining raw materials through careful collection and experience, and then adding multiple processing steps to the raw materials.
This is the mental motility that repeats such delicate work in acquiring food.
It seems to be embedded somewhere in the DNA of the Japanese mentality.
It seems to be involved in the fundamental thinking of monozukuri.

The psychocultural nature in relation to the human race and the nutritional source of intake.
The archipelago had a rather unique environment that differed greatly from the rest of the earth.
The practice of food creation, which has been handed down from mother to daughter, as illustrated in the illustration, has a deeply healing spirituality.
There is something deeply healing about the spirituality of the food creation activities handed down from mother to daughter, as illustrated in the following illustration.
The diverse food customs that evolved from the “binge-eating” habits of the Paleolithic period.
I believe that the terrestrial forests are the greatest root from which our spirituality has been nurtured.
This is where I feel a strong sense of rootedness. The roots of our roots are strong in this part of the world.

【縄文期「弓矢発明」と戦争の予感 日本列島37,000年史-14】




旧石器から縄文へと変遷してくると定住もあって
より安全な社会が到来したとつい考えたくなる。
実際にマルクス共産主義思想にわたしが惹かれた経験があるのも、
いわゆる「原始共産社会」というイメージ刷り込みが行われ
そこでは階級格差のない平和な社会が実現していたというプロパガンダが
盛んに流布されていたからだと思うのです。
青年期を迎えた正義心には魅力的な社会と思った部分がある。
しかし歴史を冷徹に見ていけば、狩猟の手段も縄文期に進化して
とくに「弓矢」という、後の世の戦争・殺し合いの主要ツールが
この縄文の世で育まれたことがわかってくる。
日本列島では縄文という漁撈と採集を生業とした社会が実現するけれど
世界史一般としては旧石器から農耕社会に移行していく。
縄文と同様にこの弓矢の発明、殺戮武器の進化があってレッドラインを超えていく。
農耕社会では「略奪可能な食料」としての農産物集積があり、
それを社会同士で奪い合う戦争が常態化していくことになる。
日本列島では農耕はやや遅れて弥生の世まで待つことになり
比較的に戦争の時代は遅れたのではないかと推定できるけれど、
さりとてマルクス主義の理想郷社会とは実態は乖離していたと想像できる。

図のように弓矢の発明は旧石器由来の狩猟のツール進化であることは疑いない。
大型陸上動物のハンティングによって種の減少があり
それをカバーするためにより小動物を遠距離から狙う必要性が高まった。
縄文の世を実現した落葉広葉樹の森は同時に多様な小型生物種も増加させた。
旧石器時代の追いこみ猟・落とし穴猟に加えてこういう「飛び道具」の出現。
弥生以降の血生臭い戦争は縄文の世が育んでいったことになる。
動物を殺戮可能なツールは人間に対しても当然有効。
けっしてユートピア社会だったのではなく次代の戦争の時代を着々と準備した。
縄文の世は定住が実現することで同時に地域社会が作られたと思える。
そういう地域間同士というのは必然的に近攻遠交という考え方を生む。
狩猟の「縄張り」が隣接する同士はどうしても反目する。
弥生の世になると農耕地自体が「財」として認識されて
「一所懸命」的な思想を人類に刷り込んでいくけれど、
その前段階の思考法は縄文でもあったに違いない。
境界線は弥生以降の農地のように明示的ではないけれど
やはり慣習的「猟場」感覚はそれぞれ社会で認識されていただろう。
そういう認識相互での反目関係は容易に成長しただろう。
社会が形成されれば必然的に「安全保障」を人類は求めることになる。

北海道での北方民の研究で狩猟採集段階の人々の間でも
弓矢で殺害されたことが明示的な遺骨発掘があったとも聞いている。
弓矢という「兵器」開発にはどうしても強い関心を持ってしまう。

English version⬇

The Invention of the Bow and Arrow in the Jomon Period and the Foreboding of War 37,000 Years of Japanese Archipelago – 14
Sinful humans continued to slaughter wild animals with gentle eyes. The “weapon” itself evolved and developed. …

As the transition from Paleolithic to Jomon, there was settlement.
It is tempting to think that the transition from Paleolithic to Jomon brought about a safer society.
In fact, my experience of being attracted to the Marxist-communist ideology is due in part to the imprinting of the image of a so-called “primitive communist society” on my mind.
I was attracted to Marx’s communist ideology because it imprinted an image of a so-called “primitive communist society,” where there was peace without class inequality.
and the propaganda that a peaceful society with no class disparity had been realized there.
I think it was because of the propaganda that was actively disseminated.
A part of me thought it was an attractive society for the righteous minds of my youth.
However, if we take a cold look at history, the means of hunting also evolved during the Jomon period, and
In particular, the “bow and arrow,” a major tool for war and killing in later times, was developed in this Jomon period.
The Jomon period was also the time when the Jomon developed the bow and arrow, the main tool for warfare and killing in later times.
In the Japanese archipelago, the Jomon realized a society that depended on fishing and gathering for its livelihood, but in the world history in general, the Jomon developed from the Paleolithic period.
In the Jomon period, the Jomon were a fishing and gathering society, but world history in general has seen a transition from Paleolithic to agricultural societies.
As with the Jomon, the invention of the bow and arrow, and the evolution of killing weapons, crossed the red line.
In an agrarian society, there is an accumulation of agricultural products as “lootable food.
Warfare in which societies fight each other for it will become the norm.
In the Japanese archipelago, agriculture was delayed until the Yayoi period.
In the Japanese archipelago, agriculture was delayed until the Yayoi period, and the age of war was probably delayed comparatively.
However, we can imagine that the reality of the society was far removed from the Marxist utopia.

As shown in the figure, there is no doubt that the invention of the bow and arrow is a tool evolution of Paleolithic origin hunting.
Hunting of large terrestrial animals led to the decline of species, and to compensate for this, there was a decline of smaller animals.
The hunting of large terrestrial animals led to a decrease in the number of species, and to compensate for this, the need to target smaller animals from a distance increased.
The deciduous broadleaf forests that made the Jomon period possible also increased the diversity of small species.
In addition to the pursuit and pitfall hunting of the Paleolithic period, these “jumpers” emerged.
The bloody wars of the Yayoi and later periods were fostered by the Jomon period.
Tools that can kill animals are naturally effective against humans.
The Jomon were not a utopian society, but were steadily preparing for the next era of warfare.
The Jomon period seems to have been a time of settlement and the creation of regional societies.
The idea of close combat between regions inevitably led to the concept of “close combat”.
Adjacent hunting “territories” inevitably turned against each other.
In the Yayoi period, agricultural land itself was recognized as “property.
The Yayoi period, which was the beginning of the “hard-working” mentality that was imprinted on the human race, was a time of conflict.
The Jomon must have had a way of thinking at an earlier stage.
Although the boundaries are not as explicit as those of agricultural lands in the Yayoi period and later, the Jomon must have had their own customary “hunting grounds”.
The Jomon also must have had a customary sense of “hunting grounds,” although the boundaries were not as explicit as those of agricultural lands since the Yayoi period.
Such mutual antagonisms would have grown easily.
Once a society is formed, it will inevitably seek “security” for its people.

Studies of northern peoples in Hokkaido have shown that even among hunter-gatherer peoples, it is not uncommon for people to be killed by bow and arrow.
I have also heard that there have been remains excavated in Hokkaido that clearly indicate that people were killed with bows and arrows.
I cannot help but have a strong interest in the development of “weapons” called bows and arrows.

【土器は食文化の創始か? 日本列島37,000年史-13】




地球温暖化が進み縄文海進によって海水面が上昇して
高温多湿的気候条件が日本列島に出現して、同時に土器文化が始まった。
大陸の東アジア南北でもほぼ同時期に土器がはじまる。
たぶんこのことは食に関する大変動があったことの反映に違いない。
そこで考えられるのは2つ。
ひとつは縄文海進によって落葉広葉樹の森が大きく広がって
そこから堅果類・ドングリとか多様な木の実が供給されたこと。
そしてもうひとつが広がってきた海やそこに流れ込む河川流域で
魚類という無尽蔵とも思える食糧資源が現実化したこと。
この2つの食料源が列島人類に提供されたことで
それへの食文化対応として「調理」という概念が成長したのではないか。
旧石器時代には狩猟採集生活スタイルとして獲物が獲得されると
「ばっかり食」となってしまい、栄養バランスはよくはない。
一般的に旧石器の寿命は縄文の定住にくらべ短命だったとされるのには
この栄養バランスの問題があったのではないか。
落葉照葉樹林から供給される植物性栄養源が栄養バランスを劇的に変容した。
もちろん落葉照葉樹林の広大な広がりによって
煮炊きに使用するエネルギー源として薪木が豊富に獲得可能になったことも
人類史的に大きかったように思われます。
どうもわたしには、こういう推論が魅力的に思える。

動物性タンパクは主に魚類がその用を担い、
一方で落葉照葉樹林が供給する植物性栄養源が出会う機会として
縄文土器がその調理の幅の拡大の役割を果たしていった。
陸生動物の肉食の文化としては基本的にはステーキが想像されるけれど、
海生動物・魚類については焼くほかに「煮る」食文化が発達したのではないか。
日本食に根強い「鍋食文化」が広範に広がった。
水辺という動物性と植物性の両方の食料源の接点で定住が可能になった。
こういう想像がいちばんムリのない解釈だと思えます。
とくに日本列島は暖流と寒流がせめぎ合う独特の地勢環境であり
また落葉照葉樹林からにじみ出す栄養源が河川を通じて周辺海域に
「海の恵み」の豊かさも育んだ。
地球環境の中でも特異的なこういう環境が独特の食文化を形成した。

大陸的生活環境に対して、日本列島はウオーターフロントという
暮らしやすさの面積的広がりはまったく優越した環境だったと思える。
居住がしやすい環境という意味合いからすると
国土面積とはまったく違った、海・水辺と後背の落葉照葉樹林という生活圏の
総合的居住可能面積では、日本列島は相当の豊かさを持っていた。
こういった環境が日本人の精神性の基底部分に強い影響を与えた。
海彦山彦という精神文化も揺籃したように思えてならない。

English version⬇

Are Earthenware the Founder of Food Culture? The 37,000-Year History of the Japanese Archipelago -13
The Jomon pottery culture was established in an environment with food resources such as the sea, waterfront, and deciduous evergreen forests in the background. The Jomon earthenware culture was established in this environment of food resources. This was the cradle of Japanese food and pot food culture. The Jomon Earthenware Culture

As global warming progressed and sea levels rose with the Jomon sea advance, hot and humid climatic conditions emerged in the Japanese archipelago.
The hot and humid climatic conditions in the Japanese archipelago led to the simultaneous emergence of earthenware culture.
Earthenware culture also began in the north and south of East Asia at about the same time.
This probably reflects the fact that there was a major upheaval in the food culture.
There are two possibilities.
The first is that the Jomon period saw the spread of deciduous broad-leaved forests, and the second is that the Jomon period saw the spread of hard fruits, acorns, and other edible plants.
The first is that the Jomon sea expansion greatly expanded deciduous broadleaf forests, which supplied a variety of nuts, such as hard fruits and acorns.
The other is that the sea and the rivers that flowed into it provided a seemingly inexhaustible supply of fish.
The other is the seemingly inexhaustible food resource of fish in the expanding oceans and the river basins that flow into them.
These two food sources were provided to the human population of the archipelago.
The concept of “cooking” may have grown as a food culture response to these two food sources.
In the Paleolithic period, when prey was acquired as part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
The Paleolithic lifestyle was a hunter-gatherer style, and when prey was acquired, it became an all-or-nothing diet, which did not have good nutritional balance.
It is generally believed that the life span of Paleolithic people was shorter than that of Jomon people.
This nutritional balance may have been the reason for the shorter lifespan of Paleolithic artifacts compared to Jomon settlements.
The plant source of nutrients supplied by deciduous evergreen forests dramatically altered the nutritional balance.
Of course, the vast expanse of deciduous evergreen forests
The abundance of firewood as a source of energy for cooking seems to have been a major factor in human history.
This seems to have been a major factor in human history.
This kind of reasoning seems appealing to me.

Fish are the main source of animal protein, while deciduous forests are the main source.
On the other hand, plant sources of nutrients provided by deciduous evergreen forests
Jomon pottery played a role in expanding the range of cooking.
While steaks are the basic meat of terrestrial animal cultures, the Jomon pottery was used to prepare a wide range of foods.
However, for marine animals and fish, in addition to grilling, a “boiling” food culture may have developed.
The “nabe food culture,” which is deeply rooted in Japanese cuisine, spread widely.
The waterside, a point of contact between animal and vegetable food sources, made it possible to settle down.
This seems to be the most reasonable interpretation.
In particular, the Japanese archipelago has a unique geographical environment where warm and cold currents converge.
In addition, nutrients oozing from deciduous evergreen forests are distributed through rivers to the surrounding seas, and the richness of the “bounty of the sea” has been nurtured.
The Japanese archipelago is a unique environment in the global environment.
This unique environment has created a unique food culture.

In contrast to continental living environments, the Japanese archipelago is a waterfront area.
The Japanese archipelago is a waterfront environment, which is superior to continental environments in terms of the area it covers for ease of living.
In terms of a habitable environment, the Japanese archipelago is different from the land area.
The total habitable area of the living area of the sea, waterfront, and deciduous evergreen forests in the hinterland is completely different from the land area of the country.
The Japanese archipelago was quite rich in terms of the total habitable area of the sea, waterfront, and deciduous foliage forests in the hinterland.
This environment had a strong influence on the base of Japanese people’s spirituality.
It seems that the spiritual culture of “Umihiko Yamahiko” was also cradled in this environment.

【定住開始=「住宅」の創始 日本列島37,000年史-12】



日本列島での人類の暮らし、約16,000年前頃から縄文が始まり
それまでの狩猟採集の生業・移動キャンプ生活から「定住」が開始したとされる。
現世人類史7-8万年と言われるなかでようやく「住宅建築」が始まる。
上の写真と図版イラストは東京都あきる野市の「前田耕地遺跡」。
復元イメージとされるイラストの説明文は以下。
〜1万5千年前以降、各地で少数ながら住居状施設が見つかり始める。
ライフスタイルは旧石器時代の遊動生活から定着的な生活へと変化した。
東京都・前田耕地遺跡は河川合流点に位置し直径3mの住居跡が2軒ある。
また、洞窟や岩陰が居住に利用されることも多くなった。〜
写真を見ると円形の平面がわかる。建築的な空間の結界認識のはじめ。
イラストではテント状の構造で外観的には「三角錐」形状となる。
壁であり屋根である外皮で外界と結界するカタチ。
構造的に小屋組みは木材を交差させ頂部を組み合わせて造作したと推測できる。
3mという規模感を見ると2−3人の利用規模と思える。
〜二棟の住居跡が検出。一棟は掘りこみがなく8個の川原石が外周の一部に
沿って並べられておりいわゆる平地式の住居跡とみられている。
もう一棟は柱穴こそ確認されなかったが深さ10センチほどの掘りこみを持ち、
中央のやや北寄りに炉が設けられていた。〜
平地式と竪穴式の2棟があったというのはきわめて面白い。
竪穴という住居は地面を掘り下げることでその土地の「年平均気温」程度の
「地熱」が獲得できるが住宅建築創始期から人類はこの公知を持っていた。
また、この周辺からは2000点を超える石槍と膨大な剥片などが出土する。
ここで石槍を集中的に製作していたことが分かる。竪穴住居跡の床面土中から
大量の哺乳動物と魚類の骨片が検出され特に魚類の骨片を詳細に分析した結果、
住居内に60から70個のサケの頭部が存在。遺跡が多摩川とその支流・秋川が
合流する川べりに立地する特徴を考えるとサケが溯上する秋を中心とする時期に、
その捕獲と合わせて石槍を集中的に製作したと推定される。
石槍はイラストにあるようにサケを捕獲する道具として利用したのだろう。
日本列島的な定住ライフスタイルの原形が示されているように思える。
いまの東京都あきる野市でサケの遡上があるかどうか知らないけれど、
縄文海進当時には遡上が見られたということ。

一方で「洞窟や岩陰」という住居もとくに海岸線地域では利用されただろう。
縄文海進と温暖化、高温多湿への気候変化に対応して
列島人類は水辺に主たる生活圏を構成していったと思われる。
列島の海岸線でこういう洞窟利用の痕跡は多く発見されていてポピュラー。
わたしの家はブロック造ですが、こういう洞窟住居のDNA痕跡かとも思える。
そういえばヨーロッパは伝統的に「石の家」文化が根強いけれど
やはり洞窟住居DNAと連関性があるのかも知れない。

English version⬇

The Beginning of Settlement = The Inception of “Housing” 37,000 Years of Japanese Archipelago History-12
Pit dwellings, flatland dwellings, and cave dwellings, which can be considered the DNA roots of stone architecture. The basic prototype of housing from the early Jomon period.

Human life in the Japanese archipelago, starting around 16,000 years ago, the Jomon period began.
The Jomon period began around 16,000 years ago, and “settlement” is said to have begun, replacing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and mobile camps that had existed until then.
Housing construction” finally began during the 70,000 to 80,000 years of present human history.
The photo and illustration above are of the Maeda Kochi Site in Akiruno City, Tokyo.
The following is a description of the illustration, which is said to be a restored image.
〜From 15,000 to 15,000 years ago, a small number of dwelling-like structures began to be found in various areas.
Lifestyles seem to have changed from the nomadic lifestyle of the Paleolithic Age to a more sedentary lifestyle.
At the Maeda Kochi site in Tokyo, located at the confluence of rivers, two dwelling sites with a diameter of 3 m were found.
In addition, caves and rocky shadows were often used for habitation. ~.
The photographs reveal a circular plan. The beginning of architectural space boundary recognition.
In the illustration, the tent-like structure is externally “triangular pyramidal” in shape.
The outer skin, which is both a wall and a roof, forms a boundary with the outside world.
Structurally, it can be inferred that the hut structure was built by crossing timbers and combining the tops.
The scale of 3m seems to indicate that 2-3 people used the house.
〜The remains of two dwellings were found. One of the dwellings was not dug into the ground, and eight river stones were laid out along a part of the perimeter.
The other building is thought to be a so-called “flatland style” dwelling site.
The other building has a 10cm-deep ditch with a furnace in the center slightly to the north, although no pillar holes were found.
A furnace was located slightly to the north of the center of the building. 〜The other building had a furnace in the center, slightly to the north.
It is very interesting that there were two types of dwellings, a plain type and a pit type.
A pit dwelling can obtain “geothermal heat” equivalent to the “average annual temperature” of the land by digging down into the ground.
This is something that humans have known since the earliest days of residential construction.
In addition, more than 2,000 stone spears and a vast amount of flakes have been excavated from this area.
This indicates that stone spears were intensively produced here. From the floor soil of the pit dwelling site
A large number of mammalian and fish bone fragments were found in the floor soil of the pit dwelling site, and a detailed analysis of the fish bone fragments in particular revealed that there were 60 to 70 salmon cages within the dwelling.
Detailed analysis of fish bone fragments in particular revealed the presence of 60 to 70 salmon heads within the dwelling. The site is located on the riverbank where the Tama River and its tributary, the Akigawa River, converge.
The site is located at the confluence of the Tama River and its tributary, the Akigawa River, it is likely that the site was used to catch and spear salmon in the fall when the salmon were running upstream.
It is presumed that stone spears were intensively manufactured in conjunction with the capture of salmon in the fall when they migrate upstream.
The stone spears were probably used as tools for catching salmon, as shown in the illustration.
This seems to be the prototype of the Japanese archipelago’s sedentary lifestyle.
I do not know if there is a salmon run in Akiruno City, Tokyo today, but I do know that the run was seen at the time of the Jomon sea advance.

On the other hand, “caves and rock shadows” dwellings would also have been used, especially in coastal areas.
In response to the Jomon sea advance, global warming, and climatic changes from hot to humid
The archipelago’s human population seems to have made the waterside their main living area.
Many traces of cave use have been found along the coastlines of the archipelago, and it is very popular.
My house is made of blocks, but I think it may be DNA traces of such cave dwellings.
Come to think of it, Europe has traditionally had a strong “stone house” culture.
I wonder if it is related to the DNA of cave dwellings.

【旧石器から縄文の世へ 日本列島37,000年史-11】


しばらく連載の稿を離れていましたが、仕事の方はやや小康してきたので
ふたたび「日本列島37,000年史」に復帰したいと思います。
歴史と住空間の相関文化史という視点でしょうか。
37,000年というのは日本列島に人類痕跡が確認される最初期からの時間。
最終氷期の最寒期後(19,000年前)から温暖化・海水準上昇=縄文海進があり、
16,000年前頃から日本では縄文時代が始まる。
この海水準上昇は約120メートルにおよんだ(年速1–2cm)。
ピーク時である約6,500年〜約6,000年前まで上昇が続いたと言われている。
おおまかには日本列島人類史は、旧石器と縄文以降に2分される。
上の図は縄文を象徴する「土器」文化のアジア圏での分布。
縄文海進によって同時期に各文化圏で同時に土器文化が花開く。
あ、図は先般来触れてきたように最新の国立歴史民俗博物館展示からです。

こういう図を見せられるといかに縄文海進のインパクトが凄まじいか、
如実に示されていると思います。
大陸では大型陸生動物のハンティングは生業として維持できたかも知れないが
動物相が大きく変化しただろう日本列島社会では
動物性タンパク獲得は主に魚類に限定されるようになったのだろうと思います。
前回まで触れたように陸生動物ハンティングによってもたらされた
知恵の基本原理に対してそれに上乗せするように魚類獲得の知恵が加わった。
日本人的思考法の基底刷り込みにこの思考文脈は大きかったに違いない。
陸生動物の動態観察と海生魚類の動態解明には違いがあるでしょう。
海には海流があり、それに連動して魚種が変化する。
その生態をよく研究していくことで漁獲に大きな差が生まれただろう。
また、カツオの1本釣りなど漁撈方法も魚種に合わせて発展した。
こういう思考法が人間の社会ルール構築にも影響したように思える。
現代の日本人の思考法の特徴にはこの要素が大きいのではないかと推測。


一方で大陸社会との交流ということも人類知の獲得のような意味で
きわめて目的的に追究されただろうことも容易に想像される。
中国大陸では漁業は伝統的に大きく育たなかったと司馬遼太郎の記述で読んだ。
どうも遠浅の東シナ海では獲得できる魚種が限られ味覚発展があまりなかったのか、
たとえばフカヒレのような高級食材は日本からの輸入専一だったとされる。
またコンブも日本北方産のものが珍重されていたとされる。
その分、2大大河の存在という条件によって農業文化が基盤になり
農業文化の特徴として支配と被支配の関係性が強調される文化を生んだ。
暦という農業の基本要素に基づいて自然の表現のための文字文化が起こり
やがて歴史として刻印されていく交流が東アジア世界で始まっていく。
こんな視点でそうした基盤になった縄文の世を考えて見たい。

English version⬇

From the Paleolithic to the Jomon Era: The 37,000-Year History of the Japanese Archipelago – 11
The human history of the Japanese archipelago is divided into two parts: the Paleolithic period and the Jomon period and beyond. The Jomon and post-Jomon periods are divided into two parts: the Paleolithic and the post-Jomon periods. The Jomon period was also a time of knowledge.

I have been away from writing serial articles for a while, but now that there has been a lull in my work, I would like to return to the “37,000 Year History of the Japanese Islands” again.
I would like to return to the “37,000 Year History of the Japanese Islands” again.
I would like to return to the “37,000 Year History of the Japanese Archipelago” from the viewpoint of a correlated cultural history of history and living space.
37,000 years is the time since the first traces of humans were found in the Japanese archipelago.
After the coldest period of the last glacial period (19,000 years ago), there was global warming and sea-level rise (Jomon sea-level rise).
The Jomon Period began in Japan around 16,000 years ago.
This sea-level rise was about 120 meters (1-2 cm/year).
The rise is said to have continued until its peak about 6,500 to 6,000 years ago.
The human history of the Japanese archipelago can be roughly divided into Paleolithic and post-Jomon periods.
The figure above shows the distribution of “earthenware” culture, which symbolizes the Jomon, in the Asian region.
The Jomon culture flourished simultaneously in each cultural area during the same period of time.
As mentioned earlier, this figure is from the latest exhibit at the National Museum of Japanese History.

This figure shows the tremendous impact of the Jomon sea advance.
I think it really shows how great the impact of the Jomon sea advance was.
On the continent, hunting large terrestrial animals could have been maintained as a livelihood, but the fauna would have changed drastically.
In the Japanese archipelago, where the fauna would have changed drastically, the acquisition of animal protein was mainly done by fish.
I believe that the acquisition of animal protein is now mainly limited to fish.
As previously mentioned, the basic principle of wisdom brought about by terrestrial animal hunting
The wisdom of acquiring fish was added on top of the basic principle of wisdom brought about by hunting of terrestrial animals, as I mentioned in the previous article.
This context of thinking must have been a major part of the basic imprinting of the Japanese way of thinking.
There must be a difference between observing the dynamics of terrestrial animals and elucidating the dynamics of marine fishes.
The ocean has currents, and fish species change in tandem with the currents.
A good study of their ecology would have made a big difference in the catch.
In addition, fishing methods, such as single-line fishing for skipjack, developed in accordance with the species of fish.
This way of thinking seems to have influenced the construction of human social rules.
I believe that this element may be a major characteristic of the modern Japanese way of thinking.

On the other hand, it is easy to imagine that exchange with continental societies
On the other hand, it is easy to imagine that exchange with continental societies would have been pursued with great purpose, in the sense of acquiring human knowledge.
I read in Ryotaro Shiba’s book that the fishing industry did not traditionally grow in mainland China.
I wonder if the East China Sea, with its shallow waters, did not allow for much development of taste in the species of fish that could be acquired there.
For example, it is said that luxury foodstuffs such as shark’s fin were exclusively imported from Japan.
Kelp from the northern part of Japan is also said to have been highly prized.
The existence of two major rivers in the area led to the development of an agricultural culture, which was characterized by the domination and subjugation of the people.
This culture emphasized the relationship between the dominant and the subjugated as a characteristic of the agricultural culture.
Based on the calendar, the basic element of agriculture, a written culture arose to express nature.
Eventually, the East Asian world began to interact with each other in a way that is etched in history.
I would like to consider the Jomon period as the basis for such a culture.

【宗教的信心と布施金額表現への違和感】




まだ裁判も始まっていない、容疑者の精神鑑定中でもあるけれど、
安倍元総理の暗殺事件があってその引き金を引いた人間が
ある宗教に母親が多額の寄進をして一家経済破綻したことを動機として
語ったという警察リーク以来、その宗教に対して世の中の関心が高まった。

わたし自身は特段特定宗教に対して信心する、
あるいは積極的に宗教活動にのめり込むということはなかった。
一方高校生時期に新左翼運動に傾倒してアジ演説などはしていた。
左翼の思想に対し内面から沸き立ってくる社会正義観と同期させていた。
しかし多くのきっかけで内省を深める機会を持てたことで自から関係を絶った。
その後、今回の問題の教団の関係団体などにも大学キャンパス周辺で
強引な勧誘活動に遭遇したことはあったが関わりを持つことはなかった。
左翼運動と宗教というのはある相似性は持っているとは感じた。
勧誘を受けたときのファナティックな「宗教心」にはきわめて懐疑的だった。
それはたぶん左翼運動離脱経験から得たものだったように思っている。
左翼運動というものがある特定の思想を絶対強制するのに対して
違った角度、欲望喚起型とは思えた。
宗教は「こういう攻め方をするのか」とちょっと驚いていた。
それは端的に言って「カネが絡む」という感覚だろうか。
歴史が好きな人間としては、在地する神社仏閣に対しては
人間の「文化活動」の大きな痕跡として強く興味は持っている。
そういう荘厳性の維持には当然カネは掛かるのも事実。
布施というものを集金しない限り、存続し続けることは難しい。
宗教は巨大になればなるほど、必要なおカネをどうするのかという
問題の解決を迫られることは疑いがないだろう。
日本社会では歴史的な変遷経緯を経て、宗教の無税が実施されている。
写真のような成田山新勝寺の境内風景を見たことがある。
この寺院は関東有数の初詣ランキング上位の常連として名高い。
1位 明治神宮(東京都)319万人
2位 成田山新勝寺(千葉県)298万人
3位 川崎大師(神奈川県)296万人
〜2020年全国の初詣参拝者数ランキングより。
その参道の中腹に写真のような「お布施額」を誇らしげに見せる石碑群。
よくみるとどれにも金額が大書されている・・・。
金額については日本が経験してきた金融経済史が反映されているけれど、
いかにも「どうだ」みたいに恥ずかしげも無く顕示されている。
どういった経緯でこういう無知性な表現に至るのか、疑問。
参道に設置されているということは宗教としての意思も感じる。

こういう事例はとくにこの寺に限らず普遍的に存在する。
信心の篤さが金額表現されているような異様な光景・・・。
信者としては篤志として寄進したのだろうけれど、
宗教としてはそれを石碑として表象する特異な相関性。
これは人間社会のある根幹部分をも示しているのではないか。

English version⬇

[Religious piety and discomfort with the expression “fuse amount.
The way the money is expressed without hesitation makes my feet heavy as I walk along the approach to the temple. It is a fact that Catholics were also selling indulgences. The fact that Catholics also sold indulgences. I am not sure if this is true or not.

Though the trial has not yet begun, and the suspect is still undergoing psychiatric evaluation
There was an assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Abe, and the person who triggered it
The police leaked that the person who triggered the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe spoke of his mother’s large donation to a certain religion as a motive for the family’s financial ruin.
The police leaked a story that the person who triggered the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe said that he was motivated by his mother’s large donation to a religion that had ruined the family financially.

I myself am not a believer in any particular religion, nor do I actively participate in religious activities.
I myself have never been a believer in any particular religion or actively involved in religious activities.
On the other hand, during my high school years, I was devoted to the New Left Movement and gave speeches.
I synchronized leftist ideology with a sense of social justice that welled up inside me.
However, after many opportunities to deepen his introspection, he voluntarily severed his relationship with the group in question.
Later, I was also involved in groups related to the cult in question in this case, and other groups around the university campus.
I have encountered aggressive recruiting activities around the university campus, but I have never been involved with them.
I felt that the leftist movement and religion have certain similarities.
I was very skeptical of the fanatic “religiosity” of those who were recruited.
I think that this was probably a result of my experience of leaving the leftist movement.
Whereas the leftist movement absolutely enforces a certain ideology, the leftist movement has a different angle, a desire-driven approach.
I thought it was a different angle, a desire-inspiring type.
I was a little surprised that religion would be attacked in this way.
Is that the sense of “money involved” in a nutshell?
As a person who loves history, I have an interest in the shrines and temples that are located in the area.
I have a strong interest in local shrines and temples as major traces of human “cultural activities.
It is also true that it costs money to maintain such solemnity.
Unless they collect donations, it is difficult for them to continue to exist.
The larger a religion becomes, the more it is forced to solve the problem of how to raise the necessary money.
There is no doubt that the larger a religion becomes, the more it will be forced to solve the problem of what to do with the money it needs.
In Japanese society, there is a historical transition process that has resulted in the implementation of tax-free religion.
I have seen the precincts of Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple as shown in the photo.
This temple is renowned as one of the top regulars in the Kanto region’s leading Hatsumode ranking.
No. 1 Meiji Jingu Shrine (Tokyo): 3.19 million visitors
No. 2 Naritasan Shinshoji Temple (Chiba Prefecture): 2.98 million visitors
No. 3 Kawasaki Daishi Temple (Kanagawa Prefecture): 2.96 million visitors
〜The number of visitors to the temple is based on the ranking of the number of visitors to the temple in Japan in 2020.
The picture shows a group of stone monuments in the middle of the approach to the temple, proudly displaying the “amount of offerings” as shown in the picture.
If you look closely, you can see the amount of money written in large letters on all of them….
The amount of money reflects the financial and economic history that Japan has experienced.
The amount of money reflects the financial and economic history that Japan has experienced, but it is shamelessly displayed as if to say, “How’s it going?
I wonder how they came up with this ignorant expression.
The fact that it is placed on the approach to the temple suggests a religious intention.

This kind of case is not limited to this temple in particular, but exists universally.
It is a bizarre scene that seems to express the amount of money that the piety of the believers is expressed.
As a believer, he/she may have donated the money as a gesture of charity, but as a religious person, he/she respects it as a monument.
But as a religion, it is respected as a stone monument.
This may indicate a fundamental part of human society.