Magatama
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Magatama 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. The beads, also described
Magatama from Kofun period（Tokyo National Museum）
Agate magatama, Kobe Archaeology Center (神戸市埋蔵文化財センター, Kōbeshi Maizō Bunkazai Sentā)
Museum housing artifacts of magatama production, Tamatsukuri Inari Shrine, Osaka
Necklace of jade magatama from a Japanese burial
Amaterasu
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Amaterasu Ōmikami, often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Amateru Kami and Ōhirume no Muchi, is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity of the Shinto pa
Magatama
…from Tamanoya no mikoto, or Ame-no-Futodama-no-mikoto, the jewel-making deity. Susanoo went to heaven and presented them to his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, who bit off successive parts of the magatama, and blew them away to create other deities. Tamanoya no mikoto remains the god of magatama, glasses, and…
Amaterasu emerging from the cave, Ama-no-Iwato, to which she once retreated (detail of woodblock print by Kunisada)
Izanagi purifying himself (misogi) by immersing in the Tachibana River (Natori Shunsen)
Installation of the Sun Goddess (Amaterasu)
Susanoo throwing the heavenly horse into Amaterasu's loom