じょうもんだい
Meanings
Noun
Historical
1. Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
Kanji used
rope
written sentence
time
substitute
Pitch accent
じょ
うもんじ
だい
Composed of
straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
post-Jōmon period (mainly Hokkaido; 3rd to 7th century BC); epi-Jōmon period