"Haniwa" is an unglazed clay artifact arranged around the mounded tomb, and at first, non-figurative cylindrical haniwa appeared, and before long, bird-shaped haniwa appeared, and then, animal-shaped haniwa (other than bird-shaped ones), and human-shaped haniwa followed that.
埴輪は古墳の墳丘の周囲に立てられた素焼きの土製品で、具象的な形体を表わさない円筒埴輪から始まり、やがて鳥形埴輪が登場、鳥以外の動物埴輪、人物埴輪がこれに続く。