Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum
Yoshisaki Suba Site Artifact:
Fire-Starting Mortar
- Display status
- On display
- Period
- Yayoi Period
- Form/Type
- Archaeological material
- Location
- Hakui City
People have improved their lives by using fire for cooking, making pottery, etc. since the Jomon period. This fire-starting mortar from the Yayoi period was unearthed at the Yoshisaki Suba Site. There are black charred holes in the cedar boards, indicating that the fire was made using the frictional heat of rubbing the boards together.
Using fire and earthenware, harvested hard rice and other ingredients could be cooked until soft and edible, resulting in more efficient nutritional intake and a longer lifespan. When there are older and younger generations in a village, culture and technology are accumulated and passed down from generation to generation, becoming the driving force for new cultural development. The traces of ancient times conveyed by sites such as this can also give us hints about longer lifespans and regional sustainability for modern societies.
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A local history museum that opened in 1983. They collect materials that convey the history and culture of Hakui City (archaeological materials, historical materials, folk implements, etc.), preserve them, conduct research on them and display them publicly. The folk implements exhibition room on the first floor explains the tools used in Hakui's past way of living. The history exhibition room on the second floor displays valuable excavated items mainly from the Yoshisaki-Suba Site, a Nationally Designated Historic Site, and the Jike Site, as well as historical materials such as ancient documents. They also hold ancient experience classes and events such as magatama (comma-shaped stone bead) making and fire starting experiences. Please feel free to stop by and experience the history of Hakui.
38-1 Tsurutada, Tsurutamachi, Hakui, 925-0027 Google Maps
TEL 0767-22-5998 E-mail post@city.hakui.lg.jp
