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| The “Doigahama Remains” in Yamaguchi is a remains of a group tomb which more than 300 Yayoi men's bones were buried and found. These remains gives us important data when we think of the roots of Japanese people or when we understand the existence of burial by Yayoi man. A armlet made of a Gobouragai from Okinawa, which was put on the man's arm thought of as a shaman, was found at the remains. It is reported in various regions of the world about the examples that the personal ornament had a magical and ranking meaning as well as it existed for it was dressed and it was put on by a man in a special position. Why was the Gobouragai which only existed in the islands on the south of Okinawa valued so highly? It is said that these shellcircles from the South Sea was regarded as a symbol of authority in Kyushu in the Yayoi Period and that they were made massively centering on upper Kyushu. | |
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