Handled mirror with inscription “Kakitsubata”
- Person
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作者和田藤原好兼
- Date
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制作年 AD19
- Title
- カキツバタジエカガミ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
Against a backdrop of iris, Japanese globeflower, and a thatched-roof hut, the characters spelling “Kakitsubata” (iris) are inscribed. The viewer is immediately reminded of the ancient poem by Ki-no-Tsurayuki that plays on the alliteration of kakitsubata and kaki (fence): “I wish for someone with whom to view the irises bloom before they fade. The flowers remind me of the fence separating your home from mine” (in Anthology of Japanese and Chinese Poems for Recitation, Jap. Wakan Roeishu; also in Collection of Tsurayuki’s Poems, or Tsurayuki-shu). A very similar design but with the inscription “Tamagawa” is seen on a mirror preserved at Horyuji Temple.
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- Title (EN)
- Handled mirror with inscription “Kakitsubata”
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1面
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 柄は籐巻、鏡箱は漆塗。
- Attachments
- 鏡箱（漆塗）
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