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Japanese: 瑗 - えん
En

…They are called hai-giyoku (paired jade). There are many kinds of jade, such as the arched jade (kou) from the Neolithic period, wide circular jade (kan), narrow circular jade (en), dragon-shaped jade with twisted bodies in C or S shapes, and others, and they were hung on strings and used in combination. There was no set method for combining them, as later scholars thought. …

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Japanese:

…佩玉(はいぎよく)と呼ばれる。これには新石器時代以来の弓なりの玉器(璜(こう)),幅の広い環状の玉(環(かん)),幅の狭い環状の玉(瑗(えん)),C字形やS字形等に身体をくねらせた竜形の玉などのほか多くの種類があり,それらは紐でつるして組み合わせて使用された。組合せの方式には後世の学者が考えたような決まった方式はなかった。…

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