Dragonfly beads (Tonbodama) - Tonbodama (English spelling) eye beads

Japanese: トンボ玉(蜻蛉玉) - とんぼだま(英語表記)eye beads
Dragonfly beads (Tonbodama) - Tonbodama (English spelling) eye beads
A type of round bead with a decorative pattern created by inlaying or pasting glass of a different color onto the surface of opaque colored glass. The overwhelming majority of the patterns are concentric circles or circles, and are so named because they resemble the eyes of a dragonfly, but patterns also include linear patterns. Inlay techniques are quite advanced and first appeared in Egypt (18th Dynasty) and Mesopotamia around 1500 BCE. After that, they spread to both the East and the West as beads for necklaces, and were produced in various places.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
不透明の色付きガラスの表面に,異なった色のガラスを象嵌(象嵌玉)したり貼付して装飾文様を施した丸玉の一種。文様は同心円文や円文が圧倒的に多く,その形態がトンボの目玉に類似するところから,このように通称されているが,文様には線条文なども含まれる。象嵌の技術はかなり高度のもので,エジプト(第18王朝)やメソポタミアで前1500年ころに初めて出現し,以後,首飾のビーズとして東西に広まり,各地で制作された。

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