Handled mirror with inscription “Tamagawa”
- Person
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作者藤原政重
- Date
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制作年 AD19
- Title
- タマガワジエカガミ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
Rivers named Tamagawa abound throughout Japan, but the six most famous ones are collectively termed the “Six Tama Rivers” and were once favorite topics of poetry composition. This mirror has plover and a plant similar in appearance to a fringed pink. Although no earlier poems sing of fringed pink flowers in association with a Tama River, an ancient poem in the New Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems (Jap. Shin Kokinshu), composed by Priest Noin, puts a bird and the Tama River in Mutsu Province together: “Evening comes, plovers’ chirps in the breezes near the Tama River of Mutsu in Ohu Province.” On the other side, the Tama River in Musashino Province is the River Tama that flows through southern Tokyo today. Thanks to ancient poems, the River Tama was a popular spot during the Edo Period, which may explain the popularity of inscribing “Tamagawa” on mirrors.
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- Title (EN)
- Handled mirror with inscription “Tamagawa”
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Quantity 1面
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 柄：籐巻き
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- 内蓋
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