明治大学記念館前遺跡の胞衣埋納遺構
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Placenta burial remnants are remnants of pottery placed with the mouths joined. At first, few samples were excavated and little was known about these remains, but it became understood from case examples of folk custom and so on that they are the remains of the birth and child care ritual of 'placenta burial.' From the late 1980s, excavations were instigated in various parts of the Tokyo Metropolitan area, and as a result, there was an increase in number of excavated placenta depots. It has thus become evident that previous interpretations were correct. Research on Edo remains has also started to flourish. The paper focuses on the site in front of Meiji University Memorial Hall, from which 20 placenta depots have been excavated. For about 200 years until the end of the Tokugawa period, the area around the Memorial Hall was the land where the retainer of the 4000-koku estate, Nakanobo, lived. The many remnants excavated from this site are materials that offer a glimpse of the practice of placenta burial among members of the retainer class. The placenta depots from the site in front of the Memorial Hall were reexamined taking into account placenta depots from other sites in Tokyo and paying particular attention to the spatial arrangement of the excavation site. Of the 20 placenta depots discovered at the site in front of the Memorial Hall, 17 were excavated from the south side of the estate and the other 3 from the north side. The ones found on the south side were arranged in a straight north-south line, following almost exactly the row of houses (that supposedly was there).
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- 2007-03-31