Haniwa in the Form of a Shield

Cleveland Museum of Art

Haniwa in the Form of a Shield

Date
c. 500
Medium
Earthenware with applied, cut, and incised designs and red slip
Culture
Japan, Kofun period (300–710 CE)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Haniwa (clay cylinders) topped with the form of a shield, or with a shield and quiver of arrows, appear on some tomb mounds called kofun (old mounds). There are also warriors holding a shield, their heads peeping out over the tops, or diagonally across their bodies. There are even some haniwa with a warrior’s helmet sitting at the top of the cylinder above the shield. This unusual object has a shield and quiver on the front, and the face of a warrior wearing a helmet on the reverse.

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