{"id":"EA-SANNAI-MARUYAMA-TANZAKU-001","label":"Sannai-Maruyama poem-card pendants","people_or_site":"Sannai-Maruyama short-rectangular pendant","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Aomori, Japan; Sannai-Maruyama site, Jomon","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"短冊形垂飾品","source_term":"短冊形垂飾品; 石製垂飾品; rectangular/stone pendant; serpentinite pendant","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"Two flat serpentinite tablets, each pierced by a single hole near the upper end. By the published figure's scale, the larger is about 7.0–7.4 cm long, 2.8 cm at its widest and 0.3–0.4 cm thick, with a centred hole near its end and a thin, even profile; the smaller is about 4.6 cm long and 1.2–1.6 cm wide. Four other stone pendants from the site, 4.1 to 7.8 cm long, carry the same single upper hole.","function_summary":"Published only under a provisional name, 'short-rectangular pendants', a label that leaves the function open; Fujita Fujio read the related hera-shaped class as hairpin-like hair ornaments. Thin and holed at one end, the larger tablet has the proportions of a whirled blade.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"aomori_kiyou04_sannai_fig4","source_type":"archaeological_research_bulletin","source_url":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","page_or_plate":"Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 4 items 37-38","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate point at the Sannai-Maruyama site, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture; it marks the site, not where within it the object was found.","jade_complex_role":"anchor","blurb":"Sannai-Maruyama produced a pair of flat serpentinite tablets that the specialists could not comfortably name. They resemble the rod-shaped pendants of the slit-earring horizon in their single upper hole and elongated form, but both ends are broad and straight, so an Aomori research bulletin coined a provisional label: tanzaku-gata, 'short-rectangular pendants,' after the paper strips poems are written on. Fujita Fujio, who named the related hera-shaped class, read such pieces as hairpin-like hair ornaments; the bulletin suggests these were pendants, sometimes worn as a set with the site's slit earrings. Cut from the same serpentinite as those earrings and — by figure scale — only three or four millimetres thick, the larger tablet is, in outline and section, as close to a miniature bullroarer as anything in the Jōmon record. Its exact phase is unknown even to its publishers, and no measurements have ever been printed.","pull_quote":"仮りに「短冊形垂飾品」と呼称するが、棒状垂飾とは上部の1孔と細長い点が類似している。","pull_quote_translation":"I provisionally call them 'short-rectangular pendants'; they resemble the rod-pendants in their single upper hole and elongated form.","pull_quote_cite":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin no. 4, on Fig. 4 items 37–38","term_gloss":"短冊形垂飾品 (tanzaku-gata suishokuhin): 'short-rectangular pendant', literally 'poem-card-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. 3950–2250 BC","date_qualification":"Span of the site's occupation; the tablets are not closely dated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"aomori_kiyou04_sannai_fig4, Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 4 items 37-38","sources":[{"citation":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 4 items 37-38","url":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250218102621/https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 4 items 37-38","source_display":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 4 items 37-38","date_citation_display":"Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 4 items 37-38","object_display":"Two flat serpentinite tablets, each pierced by a single hole near the upper end. By the published figure's scale, the larger is about 7.0–7.4 cm long, 2.8 cm at its widest and 0.3–0.4 cm thick, with a centred hole near its end and a thin, even profile; the smaller is about 4.6 cm long and 1.2–1.6 cm wide. Four other stone pendants from the site, 4.1 to 7.8 cm long, carry the same single upper hole.","function_display":"Published only under a provisional name, 'short-rectangular pendants', a label that leaves the function open; Fujita Fujio read the related hera-shaped class as hairpin-like hair ornaments. Thin and holed at one end, the larger tablet has the proportions of a whirled blade.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sannai maruyama","display_name":"Sannai-Maruyama poem-card pendants","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-sannai-maruyama-tanzaku-001.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-sannai-maruyama-tanzaku-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two Sannai-Maruyama poem-card-shaped serpentinite pendants, each shown face-on, edge-on and in section, with a round hole near its narrow top.","credit":"Aomori City buried-cultural-property research bulletin no. 4, excavation report drawing","license":"In copyright — excavation report figure, rehosted at low resolution for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Sannai-Maruyama poem-card pendants (短冊形垂飾品): the two serpentinite tablets, face-on, in profile and in section"},"slug":"ea-sannai-maruyama-tanzaku-001-sannai-maruyama-short-rectangular-pendant-lead"}