Hihiirokane
Mythological · Legendary · Modern
A metal named in the Takeuchi documents, papers Takeuchi Kyōmaro presented in 1935 as his family's ancient records; they are a 20th-century forgery, and the metal appears nowhere in the Kojiki or the Nihon Shoki. As those papers and the occult writers after them tell it, hihiirokane is red like the sun or simply shining, cold to the touch, harder than diamond and proof against rust, and it carries heat so well that a handful of leaves will boil water. They claim the Three Sacred Treasures were made of it.
Identity
- Source
- Takeuchi documents (20th-century forgery)
- Also known as
- Scarlet metal, Fire-colored metal, Hihi-iro-kane
Physical Properties
- Appearance
- Red like the sun, or simply shining: the claims differ
- Luster
- Metallic
- Density
- 12 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 9500 °C
- Lighter
- Lead
- Denser
- Palladium
- Magnetism
- Non-magnetic
- Electrical conductivity
- Very High
Mechanical Properties
- Mohs hardness
- 10
- Tensile strength
- 9999 MPa
- Softer
- Mirrorplate
- Harder
- Beskar
- Workability
- Impossible
- Brittleness
- Tough
- Malleability
- Low
- Ductility
- Low
Chemical Properties
- Corrosion resistance
- Absolute
- Reactivity
- None
Lore & Narrative
The historian Kanō Kōkichi examined the documents in 1935 and published his proof that they were modern forgeries in June 1936. The metal outlived the exposure in occult magazines: in 1985 Asahara Shōkō, later the founder of Aum Shinrikyō, claimed in print to have found it.
- Notable uses
- Divine weapons, godly regalia, spiritual anchoring artifacts
- Forge uses
- Divine weapons, Regalia
- Worldbuilding traits
- Divine, Japanese, Scarlet, Spiritual
Sources
- Takeuchi documents, Wikipedia
- ヒヒイロカネ (Hihiirokane), Wikipedia (Japanese)
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