Lot Essay
Most of Dogu figures with punctate patterns across its torso are from the late Final Jomon period but there are some rare examples also from early Yayoi period. An almost identical shitotsu dogu with decoration of dots excavated in Sunazawa, Aomori Prefecture is in the collection of Hirosaki City Board of Education, see Miho Museum, ed., Dogu, a Cosmos (Tokyo: Hatori Press, Inc., 2012), cat. no. 232.