Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum
Bead-making tools excavated from the Ao Shimode Site
- Display status
- No permanent display
- Period
- Yayoi Period
- Form/Type
- Archaeological material
- Location
- Hakui City, Ishikawa Pref.
The Ao Shimode Site, discovered during the reconstruction of Awanoho Elementary School in Hakui City, is a settlement site from the late to final stages of the Yayoi period (around 50 to 250 AD), located on a sandy ridge. Twelve bead-making related artifacts were excavated from the remains of a dwelling. Among these were unfinished jade magatama believed to be in the process of being worked, sourced from Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture, along with grinding stones used to polish these beads. It is rare to find a collection of bead-making tools from the remains of a dwelling, making this a valuable resource for understanding the production techniques of the time, and it suggests that this dwelling may have functioned as a bead-making workshop within the settlement. Bead-making materials have also been confirmed at the Yoshizaki and Jiba sites, which are large central settlement sites near Ochi lagoon, indicating that bead-making communities likely existed in Yayoi settlements on sandy ridges as well.
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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
