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It is said that the origin of the divine mirror dates back to China. [3] In China, more ancient divine mirrors have been unearthed than in Japan, and compared to the oldest mirror in Japan, the "Four divine mirrors with a rectangular shape inscribed in the third year of Seiryu," which is dated to 235 A.D., the oldest divine mirror in China is the "Leaf Vein Mirror (葉脈文鏡, Yōmyaku bun ...
The most common yorishiro are swords, mirrors, ritual staffs decorated with paper streamers called gohei, comma-shaped beads called magatama (勾玉/曲玉), large rocks (iwasaka (岩境) or iwakura (磐座), and sacred trees. [1] [2] Kami are often considered to dwell in unusually-shaped rocks or trees, or in caves and earth mounds. [4]
She was regarded as an ancestral deity of Kagami zukuri no muraji (The mirror-making clans). In Japanese mythology, she created the exquisite Yata-no-kagami mirror which lures the sun goddess Amaterasu out of her cave and returns light to the world. [4] Due to this achievement, Ishikori-dome is worshipped by makers of mirrors and stonecutters.
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Kamidana shintai [a] are most commonly small circular mirrors, though they can also be magatama jewels, or some other object with largely symbolic value. The kami within the shintai is often the deity of the local shrine or one particular to the house owner's profession.
The most common shintai are man-made objects like mirrors, swords, jewels (for example comma-shaped stones called magatama), gohei (wands used during religious rites), and sculptures of kami called shinzō (), [3] but they can be also natural objects such as rocks (shinishi ()), mountains (shintai-zan ()), trees (shinboku ()), and waterfalls (shintaki ()) [1] Before the forcible separation of ...
' mirror ') – Often used in Shinto worship; originally bronze mirrors were used (see also shinkyō), having been introduced to Japan from China; the most famous example of mirrors in Shinto is the Yata no Kagami. Kagami (火神, lit. ' fire deity ') – Another name for Kagatsuchi. Kagome crest (籠目紋, lit.
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