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Objects from ritual sites at the Ōmiyame Shrine

Artwork · Anonymous · 6th century–7th century · jewellery · Ōmiyame Shrine

Tubular and round beads and magatama found at the ritual sites of the Ōmiyame Shrine: offerings to a kami, which in the sixth and seventh centuries still took the form of stone beads and magatama, as since the Jōmon period. 1 Mason 2005, p. 54, fig. 58. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.