Talk:Kagome lattice

This was the original content: "The Japanese word kagome has become popular with the magnetism community in discussing the lattice structure of geometrical spin frustration. One might guess that this word is the name of some Japanese scientist. But kagome means a bamboo-basket (kago) woven pattern (me) that is composed of interlaced triangles whose lattice points each have four neighboring points".

Someone might want to put "geometrical spin frustration" [1] back into the article, I'm not familiar with that concept so I can't do it myself. Kappa 01:03, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

From Tabor to Tokyo[edit]

It is rather suprising to find the Star of David in Japan, since that island is commonly considered the singular place on Earth where jewish people never lived or arrived in any significant number. (The only israelite cemetery in Japan has only 50 tombstones since the 1700s to day, even though China has a significant jewish presence since antiquity.)

How did the japanese learn about the sacred Star of David? 91.83.20.181 (talk) 20:36, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not especially unusual as a geometric pattern. There's no reason to assume that its Japanese usage has anything to do with mystic religious symbolism. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:43, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]