Wado no Hijiri-jinja Shrine' in Kuroya, Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, known as the place where wado (Japanese copper) was first discovered, has a pair of male and female centipedes made of Japanese copper which were presented by Empress Genmei and have been enshrined as a votive offering to Shinto gods.
和銅発見の地、埼玉県秩父市黒谷に鎮座する「和銅の聖神社」には、元明天皇御下賜の和銅製の蜈蚣（むかで）雌雄一対が御神宝として納められている。