Yasakani no Magatama

Shinto

• Yasakani no Magatama appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki hangs the curved jewel with the mirror in the cave rite that draws Amaterasu out. A named magatama of that compilation, not Chinese jade as a material and not every later souvenir bead.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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• Yasakani no Magatama is sacred to Amaterasu.

  The Kojiki places the curved jewel among the treasures of Amaterasu’s cave-return. A named jewel of that sun kami, not a generic magatama, and not the Yata mirror.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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