銅どう鐸たく

noun

dōtaku; bronze bell-shaped vessel

A large bronze bell-shaped object from the Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE), thought to have been used in rituals. Often found buried at archaeological sites.

• この銅どう鐸たくは弥生やよい時じ代だいの遺い跡せきから出しゅつ土どした。

  This dōtaku was excavated from a Yayoi-period site.

• 銅どう鐸たくは主おもに祭さい祀しに使つかわれたと考かんがえられている。

  Dōtaku are thought to have been used mainly in rituals.