Handled Mirror with Tiger and Bamboo Motif
- Date
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制作年 Early Edo period (17th century)
- Title
- チッコズエカガミ
- Measurements
- D.9.7, L.19.2
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
A famous anecdote has it that General Kato Kiyomasa sailed to the Korean Peninsula during the Bunroku Campaign (1592), where he killed a fierce tiger. Later in the Edo Period, the tiger came to be associated with valor and dignity, and thus, good fortune. In paintings, tigers are always depicted against a backdrop of a bamboo, and interestingly, an Edo-era senryu (17-syllabal comical or satirical poem) demonstrates the importance of this pairing. “Add some bamboo to show it’s not a cat,” the poet writes, criticizing paintings of dubious quality in which tigers would look like common house cats unless accompanied by the tree-like cane.
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- Title (EN)
- Handled Mirror with Tiger and Bamboo Motif
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1面
- Attachments
- フェルト製布袋入り
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