{"id":"EA-MIHARADAJO-HERA-001","label":"Miharadajō site no.432 large hera-shaped pendant","people_or_site":"Miharadajo site no.432 large hera-shaped pendant","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan; Miharadajo site no. 432","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"ヘラ状垂飾","source_term":"ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant; 玉錘 report label","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"A serpentinite blade 10 cm long, pierced near the top by a hole about 5 mm across drilled from both faces, with a groove running across the hole itself; like the rest of its group of five, both faces carry slanting wear of nearly 45 degrees around the perforation. From pit 86.","function_summary":"Published as a 'jade weight' (玉錘) where its cluster-mates are 'pendants' and an 'axe'; the cord-worn channel across its perforation is the specimen's distinctive fact.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"miharadajo_28796_no432","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/28796","page_or_plate":"SiteReports 28796 split 1, no. 432 crop and description","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate municipality-level point at Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture; not the site's own location.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"Specimen no. 432 from pit 86 at Miharadajō in Shibukawa carries the third published label the Kanto cluster has collected: its report calls it a 玉錘, a 'jade weight.' Ten centimetres of serpentinite with a biconically drilled hole about five millimetres across near the top — and, uniquely in the group, a groove worn across the perforation itself, as if a cord had seated there under tension. Pendant, axe, weight: three reports, three functions, one repeated shape. A cord-channel worn across the hole of a thin suspended blade is equally at home on a loom weight and on an instrument swung hard in circles; nothing published decides it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"ヘラ状垂飾 (hera-jō suishoku): 'spatula-shaped pendant'","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 4050–3050 BC","date_qualification":"Jōmon cluster range; object undated.","date_basis":"cluster_attribution","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"miharadajo_28796_no432, SiteReports 28796 split 1, no. 432 crop and description; Kanagawa 2024 lecture p. 9 fig. 2","sources":[{"citation":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017; Miharadajo site report, object no. 432","url":"https://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/28796","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220728135055/https://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/28796"}],"source_citations":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017; Miharadajo site report, object no. 432","source_display":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017; Miharadajo site report, object no. 432","date_citation_display":"SiteReports 28796 split 1, no. 432 crop and description; Kanagawa 2024 lecture p. 9 fig. 2","object_display":"A serpentinite blade 10 cm long, pierced near the top by a hole about 5 mm across drilled from both faces, with a groove running across the hole itself; like the rest of its group of five, both faces carry slanting wear of nearly 45 degrees around the perforation. From pit 86.","function_display":"Published as a 'jade weight' (玉錘) where its cluster-mates are 'pendants' and an 'axe'; the cord-worn channel across its perforation is the specimen's distinctive fact.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"miharadajo site","display_name":"Miharadajō site no.432 large hera-shaped pendant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-miharadajo-hera-001-fig2.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-miharadajo-hera-001-fig2_thumb.jpg","alt":"Miharadajō hera-shaped pendant no. 432, drawn as two broad faces and two thin edge views, with end cross-sections and a large hole near one end.","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/documents/8040/r6kouza-7.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Miharadajō site large hera-shaped pendant (no.432)."},"slug":"ea-miharadajo-hera-001-miharadajo-site-no-432-large-hera-shaped-pendant"}