This is an overview article from Nippon.com, the English language service of the Nippon Communications Foundation, a Japanese public interest nonprofit media organization, describing Japan's Three Sacred Treasures, the mirror Yata no Kagami, the sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi and the jewels Yasakani no Magatama, their mythic origin traced to the sun goddess Amaterasu, their role in imperial enthronement, and the fact that they are kept in separate locations and never displayed publicly. Its strength is institutional reliability for a straightforward factual overview of a well established topic, produced by an established Japanese media organization for an English reading audience rather than an anonymous or self published site. Its limit is that it is a general audience overview article rather than a scholarly treatment, so a claim needing deeper analysis of the regalia's ritual significance needs an academic source on Shinto imperial ritual.
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Reliability Tier2
A general reference article from Nippon.com, a Japanese cultural media outlet, useful for standard facts about the imperial regalia rather than as independent academic scholarship. NotesOverview of the mirror Yata no Kagami, the sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi and the jewels Yasakani no Magatama: their mythic origin with Amaterasu, their role in enthronement, their separate locations, and that they are never shown in public.
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AuthorNippon.com
PublisherNippon.com (Nippon Communications Foundation)
Publication Year2019
URLhttps://www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/cs00073/
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (40 claims)
This source backs 40 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested, 3 open question. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 3 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Artifacts & Relics, 15 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 open question, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Open Questions, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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