During the Kofun period (300 to 710) of Japanese history, people buried the dead in large mounds with many grave goods. Scattered around the mounds were objects called "haniwa" — clay cylinders topped ...

Would it sound strange to say I was enlightened when I went recently to Ueno to meet "haniwa"? Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Robert Singer can still remember how he felt when he first laid eyes on ...

An exhibition of ancient clay "haniwa" figures discovered around Japan kicked off on Oct. 16 at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Ueno district. Sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and other ...

When Japanese laborers were digging up a hillside to widen a highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the ...

In Japan, burial mounds were constructed for powerful local leaders from around the third to the seventh century. Often, unglazed, earthenware figures known as haniwa were placed on and around the ...

Candidates for the "Gunma Hani-1 Grand Prix" popularity vote are seen. (Photo courtesy of Gunma Prefectural Government) MAEBASHI -- Online and postal voting for the most popular of 100 "haniwa," or ...

In the quiet soil of Saitama prefecture, two clay statues waited for 1,500 years silent, wide-eyed, and bent in stance as if in song or in stride. They are the “Haniwa Terracotta Dancers” and part of ...