What are these?
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Looks like Mercari was selling a similar set for 700 yen until recently. It's deleted from their site now. They look like little tchotchkes to put on your desk or something. They're made of clay, obviously. I don't know how well this search result will work, but it's just an image selected from an image search in Yahoo Japan for 手びねりマスコットはにわ
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This is a set of haniwa figurines.
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It's probably a souvenir set bought at a museum. I believe the originals are displayed at the Ueno National Museum.
Haniwa
Haniwa (埴輪) is a collective term for the unglazed earthenware cylinders and hollow sculptures that decorated the surface of the great mounded tombs (kofun) built for the Japanese elite during the fourth to seventh centuries. Haniwa (埴輪) statues...
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It's probably a souvenir set bought at a museum. I believe the originals are displayed at the Ueno National Museum.
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Thank you. I just thought they were a neat find at and estate sale recently.This is a set of haniwa figurines.
Haniwa
Haniwa (埴輪) is a collective term for the unglazed earthenware cylinders and hollow sculptures that decorated the surface of the great mounded tombs (kofun) built for the Japanese elite during the fourth to seventh centuries. Haniwa (埴輪) statues...
It's probably a souvenir set bought at a museum. I believe the originals are displayed at the Ueno National Museum.
