Bringing out haniwa from an old burial mound... Turned out to be elementary and junior high school students digging bamboo shoots Nara June 12 21:27
It was discovered that the haniwa, which was brought out in April this year in an old burial mound in Kawai-machi, Nara, was brought back home temporarily by local elementary and junior high school students. One of the parents said, "I didn't think it was valuable."
In April, two haniwa were brought out at the Otsukayama burial mound, a national historic site in Kawai-cho, and then one is returned in a disassembled state and the other is glued together. I found.
The town reported to the country and the prefecture, and the police were also investigating the alleged violation of the Cultural Property Protection Law.
According to the town's board of education, this month, a woman living nearby started to say that her child was involved, and as a result of the survey, local elementary and junior high school students visited an old burial mound to dig a bamboo shoot and it broke. He found that he had found two cracked haniwa, took them home temporarily, assembled one, and then returned them to the scene.
The woman said, "I didn't think it was valuable. I was surprised by the noise and I am very sorry."
The town's Board of Education wants to prevent recurrence by promoting cultural property education at local elementary schools in the future.