Magatama

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

Magatama (勾玉; less often 曲玉) are curved, comma-shaped beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately 1000 BCE to the 6th century CE.

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