Haniwa is a collective term for unglazed low-fired pottery cylinders or hollow sculptures that decorated the surface of the great mounded tombs (kofun) built for the Japanese elite during the fourth to seventh centuries. Haniwa were made in a variety of forms: as in this depiction - human figures, but also animals, military, ceremonial, and household objects.

Kiyoshi Saito designed a number of prints of haniwa figures, examples of which can be found in the Honolulu Museum of Art, go to www.honolulumuseum.org/art/9573, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, go to http://aggv.ca/collection/artwork/haniwa-pair-saito-kiyoshi (accession number 1967.056.001).

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