Artworks

Swords, halberd, spear, mirror, tubular beads and magatama jewel

Artwork · Anonymous · 2nd century BCE · Fukuoka City Museum

The goods of a 2nd-century-BCE grave in northern Kyūshū: a bronze mirror probably made in Korea, two bronze daggers, a spearhead, a halberd and a magatama — the same three kinds of objects as the regalia of the later emperors. Swords 33.4 and 30.2 cm long. 1 Mason 2005, p. 24, fig. 17. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.