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European Prehistory -Objects Received through an Exchange with the Royal Prussian Museums

  • Image of "Earthenware Jar with two Handles, From Biarowice, zary, Wojwodschaft Lubuskie, Poland, Iron Age, 6th - 1st century BC"

    Earthenware Jar with two Handles, From Biarowice, zary, Wojwodschaft Lubuskie, Poland, Iron Age, 6th - 1st century BC

    Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 10
    September 5, 2006 (Tue) - December 3, 2006 (Sun)

    In 1905, Professor Adolf Fischer from Germany arrived in Tokyo for an exchange of items between the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum (presently Tokyo National Museum) and the Royal Prussian Museums (presently Berlin State Museums). The head of the museum's Historical Department, Miyake Yonekichi, entrusted Fischer with several scores of Japanese archaeological objects and asked him for European archaeological objects in return. When the Royal Prussian Museums were notified of this request they selected relics from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Hungary, and sent them to Japan in October of 1906. These objects arrived in Tokyo in January of 1907.

    The stone, clay and bronze objects from the European prehistoric age, including the most recent discoveries at that time, showed the basis of a European culture that is different from the Greco-Roman civilization. This display features these European archaeological objects that were brought to Japan 100 years ago and sheds light on the efforts of the two museums to introduce the results of Western archaeology to Japan.

 Major works in this exhibition

* Works listed below are in the TNM Collection unless otherwise indicated.
 Stone Battle Axe, From Sjalland, Denmark, Neolithic Age, 28th - 23rd century BC
Earthenware Jar with two Handles, From Jordanow, Wroclaw, Wojwodschaft dolnoslakie, Poland, Neolithic Age, 40th - 39th century BC
Earthenware Jar with two Handles, From Biarowice, zary, Wojwodschaft Lubuskie, Poland, Iron Age, 6th - 1st century BC
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