Magatama nut addiction

I spent about two days working hard in the garden. The temperature was 10℃, perfect for gardening.
The daffodil buds finally swelled, and I saw a yellow butterfly 🦋.
My battle with the thorny roses (wild? native?) next to the small, tattered greenhouse has been going on for several years now. Cruelly, I wish they'd just die! I cut them down from the roots, but before I know it, they're back, sprouting vigorously with their thorns. I probably can't win this battle.

While I felt good clearing away last year's fallen leaves and weeds, it must have been a great nuisance to the ladybugs still under the leaves, not yet in spring mode, the curled-up slugs, and the earthworms relaxing underground. As I patted my aching back, the trees in the forest still looked bare, but they will soon be budding with astonishing vigor.
The forest squirrels and deer have survived the long winter! Spring is coming! 🌸

Speaking of squirrels, nuts.
I've been eating cashews all through March.
There aren't many people who, once they start eating one food, continue to eat only that, but they do exist occasionally. I am one of them.
When it gets serious, I start diligently stocking up on reserves at home 🐿.

When I was young, I ate too many ginkgo nuts after being told not to, and I broke out in an itchy rash and my mother was very angry (ginkgo nuts contain components that can cause poisoning ☠️. Proven fact).
This time, I consumed so many cashews that I was worried about poisoning, but I didn't get any rashes or breakouts.
My body must have craved them! ✨ I heard my body's voice, tee hee! ✨ I'll interpret it that way.

As I munched one cashew after another, with their unique texture somewhere between crunchy and soft, I wondered about their strange shape. They clearly looked like magatama. Later, I found that the Japanese name for cashews is "Magatama-no-ki" (Magatama tree), and I thought, "Of course!"
Since cashews don't grow in Japan, it's unlikely that magatama were modeled after cashews, but it's striking how similar their shape and size are.
There are various theories about what the shape of magatama itself represents.
It's somewhat mystical and mysterious.
It's not a simple straight line, nor a circle or a sphere.
It's subtly curved, small, and beautiful. Something not easily defined.
Perhaps it's a unique aesthetic to Japan.

The "Records of Wei: Account of the Wa People" states that the magatama offered by Yamatai-koku to Wei were recorded as "two large blue curved beads with holes." ....
Wait a minute.
Isn't that a rather curt way of writing it? (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
How did the people of Wei feel when they saw "large, curved beads with holes"...?
That's a slightly cynical thought, haha.
Perhaps it's a side effect of eating too many magatama tree nuts.

Everyone, please enjoy the beautiful Japanese spring in good health.
Bamboo shoots, bracken, butterbur sprouts, rapeseed flowers... 🤤 I miss them all...

The photo shows snowdrops just before blooming, a harbinger of spring in Sweden. Joy.