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The spread and unfolding of ancient iron forging technique in East Asia

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12410105
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 考古学(含先史学)
Research InstitutionHIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

FURUSE Kiyohide  Hiroshima university, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (70136018)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAWASE Masatoshi  Hiroshima university, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (30093743)
ANMA Takumi  Hiroshima university, Graduate School of Letters, Assistant, 大学院文学研究科, 助手 (40263644)
AZUMA Ushio  Tokushima university, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 総合科学部, 教授 (70243673)
MURAKAMI Yasuyult  Ehime university, Faculty of Law and Letters, Associate professor, 法文学部, 助教授 (40239504)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥4,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000)
Keywordsiron smelting / iron forging / cast iron / wrougt iron / ancient East Asia / 鉄鍛冶技術 / 纏向遺跡 / 博多遺跡 / 鞴羽口 / 鉄生産 / 鉄器生産 / 鉄滓 / 鍛冶実験 / 韓国 / 鉄鍛冶 / 鉄製品生産 / 鍛冶炉
Research Abstract

In ancient China, iron industry was highly-developed since the Age of the Warring States. So, they had high level technique about iron smelting and forging. They made plenty of cast iron by using melting furnace with a intense heat.
As iron smelting in ancient China mainly deals with cast iron, so we can find plenty of remains of having relations with casting, for example molds and melting furnaces at the archaeological sites of smelting iron. They made steel out of cast iron making full use of heat treatment techniques. And they made a large quantity of iron articles out of steel at smithies.
In ancient Korea, especialy southern part of Korea having relations with ancient Japan, people lived there imported iron smelting and forjing technique from ancient China. But it was not include carbon reduction technique by heat treatment, so ancient Korean people did not make steel out of cast iron.
In ancient Japan, iron articles were used since the Yayoi period. At the first almost all the articles were made in China and Korea, and then at last at the middle of the Yayoi period Yayoi people bigan to forge iron imported from China and Korea. But they did not only have chinese advanced iron forging technique but also they did not have korean technique. Eventually ancient Japanese iron industry was backward as compared with China and Korea.
The following is the flow chart of the developing process of the iron industry in ancient East Asia. As if it is a river, the spread of iron forging technique flows gradually from the west to the east but simultaneously the level of the technique is going down.
China iron ore - cast iron - steel and casting iron articles - iron articles and casting iron articles given carbon reduction.
Korea iron ore - wrought iron(mainly) and cast iron - steel and casting iron articles - iron articles(and casting iron articles)
Japan iron ore and iron sand(mainly) - wrought iron - steel - iron articles

Report

(5 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2004 Other

All Journal Article (6 results) Publications (14 results)

  • [Journal Article] 鉄滓から見た鍛冶技術2004

    • Author(s)
      古瀬 清秀
    • Journal Title

      考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集 単行本

      Pages: 583-598

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 古墳時代における鍛冶具副葬古墳と被葬者像2004

    • Author(s)
      村上 恭道
    • Journal Title

      考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集 単行本

      Pages: 629-646

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 金床石と古代の鍛冶2004

    • Author(s)
      安間 拓巳
    • Journal Title

      考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集 単行本

      Pages: 733-746

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The iron forging technique examined by iron slags2004

    • Author(s)
      Furuse, Kiyohide
    • Journal Title

      Kouko-Ronshu

      Pages: 583-598

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Ancient tomb furnished iron forging tools and its buried person in the Kohun period2004

    • Author(s)
      Murakami, Yasuyuki
    • Journal Title

      Kouko-Ronshu

      Pages: 629-646

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Ancient iron forging and its tool, an anvil stone2004

    • Author(s)
      Anma, Takumi
    • Journal Title

      Kouko-Ronshu

      Pages: 733-746

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 古瀬 清秀: "鉄滓から見た鍛冶技術"考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集. 単行本. 583-598 (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 村上 恭通: "古墳時代における鍛冶具副葬古墳と被葬者像"考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集. 単行本. 629-646 (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 安間 拓己: "金床石と古代の鍛冶"考古論集-河瀬正利先生退官記念論文集. 単行本. 733-746 (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 古瀬清秀: "鉄製品-鉄鍛冶の実験考古学的アプローチ-"季刊 考古学. 第81号. 64-68 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 東 潮: "古代日朝の鉄の交易と技術移転"東アジアの古代文化. 114号. 17-27 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 東 潮: "古代鉄文化の交流"東アジアと「半島空間」〜山東半島と遼東半島. (単行本). 74-92 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 村上恭通: "土佐における弥生時代鉄製品の諸問題"四国とその周辺の考古学. (単行本). 425-435 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 古瀬清秀: "長方形箱型製鉄炉の成立と変遷"鉄と銅の生産の歴史(雄山閣). 単行本. 215-224 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 古瀬清秀: "見て触って知る古墳時代の鉄・鉄器生産"研究紀要. 第6号. 33-49 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 村上恭通: "古墳出現前夜の「地域性」-生産・流通とその地理的・歴史的環境"考古学研究. 48巻3号. 20-40 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 古瀬清秀: "古墳時代前半期における鉄鍛冶技術"製鉄史論文集. 単行本. 91-116 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 村上恭通: "弥生時代の鉄器普及に関する一試論"製鉄史論文集. 単行本. 21-44 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 安間拓巳: "古代の鍛冶遺跡"製鉄史論文集. 単行本. 135-158 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 河瀬正利: "近世たたら吹製鉄の技術"製鉄史論文集. 単行本. 229-260 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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