Square mirror with gourd motif on scattered paulownia and chrysanthemum
- Person
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作者清房
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- キクキリモンチラシヒョウタンズホウキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅製
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
The decoration on this mirror shows paulownia and chrysanthemum scattered as a backdrop with a gourd motif in the center. Although edible, gourd was often used as a container after removing its flesh, and in Chanoyu (tea ceremony), it was valued as a flower vase or charcoal container for its refined simplicity. The gourd motif was perpetuated in Generalissimo Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s war standard (i.e. battle standard of a thousand gourds). In mirrors, however, gourd motifs appeared only during the Edo Period, in small numbers.
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- Square mirror with gourd motif on scattered paulownia and chrysanthemum
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