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    縄じょう文もん

    straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware

    KMT6News #11+1NounHistoryKanji Vocab19 strokes

    じょうもん

    Noun

    1.
    straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware
    2.
    Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
    historical termabbreviation

    Stroke 0 / 19

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    縄じょう文もん時じ代だいは日に本ほんの古ふるい時じ代だいです。

    The Jomon period is an ancient era of Japan.

    KMT5HistoryCulture & Traditions
    縄じょう文もん土ど器きには独どく特とくの文もん様ようが見みられます。

    Unique patterns can be seen on Jomon pottery.

    KMT6HistoryArt & DesignCulture & Traditions
    この博はく物ぶつ館かんには縄じょう文もん時じ代だいの貴き重ちょうな遺い物ぶつが展てん示じされています。

    This museum exhibits valuable artifacts from the Jomon period.

    KMT6HistoryCulture & Traditions
    縄じょう文もん杉すぎは屋や久く島しまにある樹じゅ齢れい数すう千せん年ねんの杉すぎの木きです。

    Jomon Sugi is a several-thousand-year-old cedar tree on Yakushima Island.

    KMT6HistoryNature & Environment
    縄じょう文もん人じんの生せい活かつは狩しゅ猟りょう採さい集しゅうが中ちゅう心しんでした。

    The Jomon people's lives revolved around hunting and gathering.

    KMT7HistoryCulture & Traditions

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    なわ・ただ.す…(1)
    straw rope・cord
    文
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    sentence・literature・style・art・decoration…(3)
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