reachingtokyo

The last day of work we were able to dig for stuff that we could keep. I found a pipe, some old money, a small monkey head, other parts of a pottery monkey from edo jidai, bidamon (a marble), doromenko (a game piece), a rock used to start fire, a fully intact oil lamp, a sake jug- which was much larger than anything we found during the actual recorded archeological dig- i gave that away, a fully intact small bowl/cup, kawara- pottery thats used for roofing (engi jidai I believe 901-923 BC), a part of a small doll, different bits of pottery, a woman's sandle, and what looks like an incense holder. Click on images to larger version..
Baby sharde of pottery
Piece of jiki {porcelain}

Labels: archeology, artifacts, dig, edo, engi, Japanese, jidai, nihon, pottery

I haven't written in this blog for months. why? too much to say, its a topical blog and not a diary for me, etc etc etc. A guy at work was telling me i should write something. Here is a picture of some of the guys at my temp job at the archeological site near Yotsuya in Tokyo. We are looking for Edo jidai mono (things from the Japanese Edo era). I have actually found a few pieces of crystal from the stone age though (no pictures). The pay sucks and its very hard work. I was hoping to learn some Japanese and i guess its better to at least hear very casual Japanese but my speaking ability is still heta desu (bad). If you want to see more pictures go to the www.reachingtokyo.com site later this week i should have it updated.