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ID: 300310956
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300310956

 

Record Type: concept
magatama (carvings (visual works), <sculpture by technique>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Beads with religious significance that were introduced to Japan from Korea. They are found in the prehistoric graves of ancient Japan and it is thought that they were worn on the body from the beginning of Japan's recorded history up until the Kofun period (300-710). These beads were carved from jadeite, agate, talc, glass or jasper usually into comma shapes and varied in size from a few millimeters to five centimeters.
 
Terms:
magatama (preferred,C,V,English-P,D,U,U)
magatama (Portuguese-P,D,U,U)
magatama (Dutch-P,D,U,U)
magatama (Japanese (transliterated)-P,D,U,PN)
勾玉 (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
曲玉 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
gōu yù (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
gou yu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
kou yü (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
Magatama (C,U,German-P,D,B)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VC

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
.... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Visual Works (hierarchy name)
........ Visual Works (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of visual works (works)
............ visual works (works) (G)
Hierarchy of <visual works by material or technique>
................ <visual works by material or technique> (G)
Hierarchy of sculpture (visual works)
.................... sculpture (visual works) (G)
Hierarchy of <sculpture by technique>
........................ <sculpture by technique> (G)
Hierarchy of carvings (visual works)
............................ carvings (visual works) (G)
Hierarchy of magatama
................................ magatama (G)

Additional Notes:
Chinese (traditional) ..... 由朝鮮傳入日本的珠飾,具有宗教意義,以硬玉、瑪瑙、滑石、水晶或碧玉刻製而成,形似逗號,大小從數公釐至五公分不等;發現於日本的史前古墓,普遍認為人類從日本的信史時代到古墳時代(西元300-710年間),曾將勾玉佩戴於身。 
Dutch ..... Kralen met een religieuze betekenis die in Japan werden geïntroduceerd vanuit Korea. In Japan heeft men ze gevonden in prehistorische graven. Men denkt dat ze vanaf het begin van de Japanse geschiedenis tot en met de Kofun-periode (300-710) op het lichaam werden gedragen. De kralen werden gesneden uit jadeïet, agaat, mica, glas of jaspis, gewoonlijk in de vorm van een komma. De grootte varieert van een paar millimeter tot vijf centimeter. 
German ..... Perle mit religiöser Bedeutung, die aus Korea in Japan eingeführt wurde. Sie findet sich in prähistorischen Gräbern des antiken Japan und man nimmt an, dass sie seit Beginn der Japanischen Geschichtsschreibung in der Kofun-Zeit (300-710) am Körper getragen wurden. Diese Perlen werden aus Jadeiten, Achaten, Talk, Glas oder Jaspis meist in Kommaform geschnitzt und haben unterschiedliche Größen von einigen Millimetern bis zu fünf Zentimetern. 
Portuguese ..... Contas com significado religioso que foram introduzidas no Japão pela Coreia. Elas são encontradas em túmulos pré-históricos de japoneses anciões e acredita-se que eram usadas no corpo desde o começo da história registrada do Japão até o período Kofun (300-710). Essas contas eram esculpidas em jadeita, ágata, talco, vidro ou jaspe, geralmente em formato de vírgula e de tamanhos diversos entre poucos milímetros e cinco centímetros. 

Sources and Contributors:
勾玉............  [AS-Academia Sinica Preferred]
...........  大英百科全書線上繁體中文版 July 29, 2014
曲玉............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
gou yu............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
gōu yù............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
kou yü............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
magatama............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP Preferred, VP-intern Preferred]
.................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.................  Ford, Arts of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1987)
.................  JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 30 November 2008
.................  Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 190
.................  Portuguese Translation Intern Project (2020-)
.................  Redditt. Cultura Material do Japão no Período Kofun (2016) 250
.................  Suzuki. Cultura e sociedade japonesa (2003) 85
Magatama............  [IfM-SMB-PK Preferred]
.................  Eschbach-Szabo und Kneider, Siebold-Bibliographie (1986) 177
.................  Naumann et al., Bis zum Ende der Heian-Zeit (1988) 43
.................  Schneider et al., Gedichtwettstreit der Berufe (1995) 71
 
Subject: .....  [AS-Academia Sinica, IfM-SMB-PK, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP, VP-intern]
............  E. Piryns, Japan en het christendom: naar de overstijging van een dilemma, Volume 1, Lannoo, 1971
............  Ford, Arts of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1987)
............  JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 30 November 2008
............  Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 190
............  Portuguese Translation Intern Project (2020-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Ford, Arts of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1987)
.......... JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 30 November 2008
.......... Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 190
Chinese (traditional) .......... [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......... AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
German .......... [IfM-SMB-PK]
.......... IfM Berlin
Portuguese .......... [VP-intern]
.......... Portuguese Translation Intern Project (2020-)

 

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