Bronze Sutra Cylinder
- Date
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制作年 AD12
- Title
- ドウセイキョウヅツ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
A bronze sutra cylinder with a closely-fitting lid. The lid has slightly-raised double tiers, exhibiting modest beauty. There is a houshu knob on a short stalk in the lid’s center. The cool and hard feel to the touch matches well with the whitish metallic sheen, a testimony to the refined taste of the Heian-era nobility. At the bottom of the cylinder is a copper mirror with a “crane-eating pine tree” pattern. Interestingly, small mirrors, scissors, knives and other cosmetics used by noble women were often discovered in ancient sutra mounds. Fitting a mirror to the bottom of a sutra cylinder seems to reflect women’s piety. According to the notes written by Ueno Hajime (1917-2007), the administrator at the Kumano Hayatama Grand Shrine, this beautiful cylinder was unearthed from a kyozuka mound in Nachi (Wakayama Prefecture) in March 1918.
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- Title (EN)
- Bronze Sutra Cylinder
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Quantity 1合
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