Yayoi 2-chōme Site
The is the name for an archaeological site with the trace of a Yayoi period settlement located in the Mukogaoka neighborhood of Yayoi, in Bunkyō, Tokyo in the Kantō region of Japan. It received protection as a Monuments of Japan, National Historic Site in 1976. Overview In 1884, a student at the preparatory school of the University of Tokyo, Shōzō Arisaka, discovered a distinctive red-clay jar in a Midden#Shell midden, shell mound in Mukogaoka, facing the Nezu valley in Bunkyō, Tokyo. This jar was very different from Jōmon pottery, and archaeologists named the style "Yayoi pottery" as Mukogaoka was located in the Yayoi neighborhood. Further investigation led to the conclusion that the period (1000 BC to 300 AD) in which it was made was ethnically and culturally distinct from the Jōmon period, and thus the term Yayoi period was coined. This was reported to academia in the 1889 edition of "Toyo Gakugei Magazine", which only mentioned that the location of the find was near a ...
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