Mirror with TLV pattern and beast motif
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制作年 AD1
- Title
- ホウカクキクジュウモンキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000601-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Art
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A pattern using the shapes of a T, inverted L, and V, or the famous TLV design, often decorates these ancient mirrors and is strategically placed at the four corners, along each side, or at the places opposite the four apexes of the square. These mirrors are often called “TLV mirrors.” Some scholars give cosmological significance to the TLV pattern, saying that it symbolizes the universe. Other scholars claim that it simply developed from a board on which an ancient game of checkers was played. Even if true, the rules of the game have since been lost, and the significance of the square pattern cannot be verified. The four sides of the square were often decorated with various motifs. Relatively old mirrors from the Former Han Dynasty were decorated with smooth dragons with open mouths or plant leaves with no base pattern, but the most popular round mirrors with a central square were decorated with the four divine creatures—the Red Phoenix, Black Tortoise, Blue Dragon, and White Tiger. In some, the divine creatures were replaced by beasts, as the one seen here. In such cases, the mirror is described as “a mirror with TLV pattern and beast motif.”
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- Mirror with TLV pattern and beast motif
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