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haniwa
Sign in to savethumb|Haniwa Warrior in Keiko Armor|Haniwa warrior in keikō type armor, Ōta, [[Gunma Prefecture, c. 6th century AD. Height: . National Treasure of Japan]] thumbnail|Haniwa figure of a woman, 5th–6th century. Earthenware. Excavation point unknown. This figure is considered to represent a high-ranking woman, possibly a shaman or priestess. The figure is fragmentary: the arms are missing and, like many extant haniwa, it has been reassembled from shards.
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thumb|Haniwa Warrior in Keiko Armor|Haniwa warrior in keikō type armor, Ōta, [[Gunma Prefecture, c. 6th century AD. Height: . National Treasure of Japan]] thumbnail|Haniwa figure of a woman, 5th–6th century. Earthenware. Excavation point unknown. This figure is considered to represent a high-ranking woman, possibly a shaman or priestess. The figure is fragmentary: the arms are missing and, like many extant haniwa, it has been reassembled from shards.
The are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan. Haniwa were created according to the wazumi technique, in which mounds of coiled clay were built up to shape the figure, layer by layer. Haniwa can also refer to offering cylinders, not the clay sculptures on top of them as well as the "wooden haniwa" found in Kofun tumuli.