Handled Mirror with “Tokusa” design
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作者出雲
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- トクサガリズエカガミ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
This mirror is said to emulate the Noh chant “Tokusa,” attributed to Zeami, the Noh originator and grandmaster. The drama is set in the village of Sonohara in Shinano Country (Nagano Prefecture), where a young man, kidnapped in infancy, revisits his hometown and reunites with his old father. As such, an old man cutting tokusa, or scouring rush, with a sickle or looking up at the moon, as shown in this mirror, are telltale signs of the design’s origin in Noh. Tokusa, phonetically similar to togu-kusa, or polishing weed, is a large, evergreen fern containing large amounts of silica in its stem. It therefore was often used to polish wood and various metals.
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- Handled Mirror with “Tokusa” design
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