2,000-year-old carpenter’s tool unearthed in Hokuriku dig
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 28, 2017 at 17:00 JST
A recently unearthed iron “yariganna” cutting pike plane with a haft is shown at the Ishikawa prefectural government office in Kanazawa on July 27. (Hideki Inoue)
KANAZAWA, Ishikawa Prefecture--A well-preserved ancient carpenter's tool that was at the cutting edge of Japanese manufacturing thousands of years ago has been discovered at the Yokaichijikata ruins in Komatsu in the prefecture.
The iron “yariganna” cutting pike plane, which is attached to a haft, is believed to be from about 2,300 years ago, the first half of the middle of the Yayoi Pottery Culture period (300 B.C.-A.D. 300).
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