Magatama

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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. The beads, also described as jewels, were made of stone and earthen materials in the early period, but by the end of the Kofun period were being carved almost exclusively from jade. Magatama originally served as decorative jewelry, but, by the end of the Kofun period, had come increasingly to be regarded as ceremonial and religious objects.

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