Post by Saionji Shonagon on Dec 16, 2009 21:43:54 GMT -5
A makeup kit containing a pair of 17-cm iron scissors and iron tweezers 8.5 cm long has been discovered in the tomb of a woman who lived at the end of the Heian Period (794-1192), archaeologists said recently.
Also found inside the tomb, in Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture, were a clay pot 6 cm in diameter and a 5.7-cm porcelain pot as well as a 9-cm bronze mirror made in China, according to officials of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology in Harimacho.
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Thanks to Kurokamakiri-hime for pointing it out to me earlier today.
Also found inside the tomb, in Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture, were a clay pot 6 cm in diameter and a 5.7-cm porcelain pot as well as a 9-cm bronze mirror made in China, according to officials of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology in Harimacho.
The rest of the article is here.
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091121f2.html
Thanks to Kurokamakiri-hime for pointing it out to me earlier today.