Stone Ritual Clogs
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Stone Ritual Clogs
Archaeology / Kofun / Tokyo
Place excavated:Excavated at Noge Otsuka Tumulus, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Kofun period, 5th century
石製(滑石)
長16.8・16.0 幅8.8・8.3 厚さ3.0・2.7
1対
Important Cultural Property
There is a theory that people wore clogs at ceremonial occasions so as not to contaminate ritualistically-purified water.