Large mirror

Dear Sir:

In the middle to late 50's I lived and taught in Japan. One February I attended a fertility festival near Nara. I think it may have been at Kashihara Jingu.

While I was at the shrine, a shinto priest took me inside a building and showed me a huge metallic disk. It was between 6 and 8 feet in diameter.

He told me that this was the original mirror of amaterasu omi kami, and that the one in Ise was a smaller replica.

Do you have any knowledge of such a mirror.

I cannot find any information on this subject.

Thank you very much.

William Munger

Good old Google !

The story I found was about a Japanese sun goddess who ruled over weaving & agriculture. She went into a cave(taking the sunlight with her) over being angry at her brother. She was lured out of the cave with many things, one being a large mirror of which you speak. It mentioned the Ise Jinja also. If you Google "Amaterasu-o-mi-kami" it should lead you to more info.

Uncle Frank