琴を弾く男性埴輪
- 日本
- 古墳時代
- 6c
- 焼成粘土
- 所蔵
- 愛知県陶磁資料館
円錐形のつば広帽子をかぶり左右の束ね髪の男性が座って琴を弾いている。粒装飾のついた太刀の柄が腰の左に見える。琴は刻みが4弦分あるが板の上に弦が5本粘土で貼付けられていた痕跡が残っている。湾曲したテーブル状の椅子にすわり、赤色彩色が帽子、手、脚、額、頬、首に残り、入れ墨などの身体装飾がうかがえる。埼玉県の伝舟山古墳出土の琴を弾く男性埴輪も太刀を身につけたシャーマンのような姿である。武人が琴を弾くのは何か特別な儀式であったと思われる。
Catalogue Entry
This piece shows a man seated and wearing a broad-brimmed, conical hat, with a lock of bundled hair hanging down on either side of his face, and playing a kind of zither. At his left hip is a sword hilt with button-like decorations. The zither has notches for four strings, and traces on the fretboard show that it once had five strings attached with clay. The figure sits on a chair like a table with a curved top. Traces of red coloring can be found on the hat, arms, legs, forehead, cheeks, and neck, and he sports tattoos and other body decoration. Another zither-playing male haniwa figure, believed to have been unearthed from the Funayama tomb site in Saitama prefecture, also shows its shaman-like subject with a sword. It is thought that warriors played the zither in some kind of special rite.