Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum

Ota Nishikawada Site: A settlement site for making items

The Ota Nishikawada Site is a settlement from the early Kofun period (1st century BC to 4th century AD) where crafts such as lacquerware, bead-making, and woodworking were practiced. The surfaces of the excavated earthenware were coated with black lacquer, and many fragments of earthenware repurposed as lacquer storage jars and palettes for applying lacquer were found. Additionally, unfinished tube beads and fragments of jade, the raw material for bead products, were excavated, providing valuable resources for reconstructing the processing steps of bead production.
Furthermore, fragments of stone bracelets (ishikushiro) were also discovered. Stone bracelets were decorative items that circulated among the powerful chieftains of the early Kofun period and are typically found as grave goods in burial mounds, making their discovery in settlement sites quite rare.
Previous research has indicated that the bead-making culture of the early Kofun period was centered around the Kaga region, but it is believed that there were also settlements in the Hakui area of Noto that played a role in the production of grave goods during this period.

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