Terracotta clay sculptures buried with the dead as funerary objects during the proto-historic "Kofun period":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun_period in Japan. Various types of haniwa were created, ~ soldier, [[horse]], [[dog]] and other [[animals]].
The haniwa soldiers wear ancient-style body armors, tentatively called "tankou":[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E7%94%B2] (lit. short armor) or "keikou":[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8C%82%E7%94%B2] (lamellar armor) by historians. They are not counted as [[Japanese armor]].

[[Hanny]], one of the [[monster]] tribes in the [[Alicesoft]] games are modeled on these haniwa figures.

They appear in [[Animal Crossing]] as [[gyroid_(animal_crossing)|gyroids]].

In [[Blue Archive]], haniwa exist as skill level up materials. Strangely, they're bright pink and resemble a sex toy.

h4.See also

* "Wikipedia article":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haniwa 
* [[doguu]]
* [[doll]]
* [[figure]]
* [[Ooi! Hanimaru]]
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