Yoshinogari Keitai-Guide
It is thought that the people living in the central village were engaged in various different tasks connected with the religious ceremonies conducted in the Northern Inner Enclosure. It is assumed that their daily tasks included such activities as supplying offerings for the ancestral spirits, manufacturing the implements used by the high priest in religious rituals, and preparing meals for the high priest. Among these tasks, one very important job is thought to have been making the clothes worn by the high priest when performing a ceremony. Japan’s ancient chronicles such as the Kojiki and the Nihon-shoki tell of the female weavers who served to make clothes for Amaterasu Omikami. These pit dwellings are large and unlike ordinary pit dwellings have no furnace. It is assumed that this was where the female weavers of the Yayoi period kept silkworms and wove cloth.
(C)YOSHINOGARIHISTORICAL PARK