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Imperial Regalia of Japan (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's community maintained article on the Imperial Regalia of Japan carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is continuously subject to further editing. Its strength is that it gathers, with citations, the medieval accounts of the sword's reported loss at the 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura, the ninth century replica swords and mirrors, and the treasures' concealment even at the 1989, 1990 and 2019 enthronements. Its limit is that a specialist or contested claim about the regalia's authenticity or history should be checked against dedicated scholarship on Japanese imperial ritual rather than resting on this page alone. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Reliability tier 3: a community edited encyclopedia article with citations, useful for uncontroversial documented facts though not a substitute for dedicated scholarship on contested points.
Notes
Encyclopedic survey with citations: the medieval accounts of the sword's loss (variously at the 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura), 9th-century replicas of sword and mirror, the treasures kept from view even at 1989/1990/2019 enthronements, and the current locations at Atsuta, Ise and the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
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Author
Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2025
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Regalia_of_Japan
Source Type
reference
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Associated With

Japan, Countries

This source names Japan directly: "article on the Imperial Regalia of Japan carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is continuously subject to further editing."

Source Imperial Regalia of Japan (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)

This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Artifacts & Relics, 5 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 2 general references.

Scholarly debate

1

Artifacts & Relics

General References

2

Artifacts & Relics

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