Handled Mirror with Butterfly Motif
- Person
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作者藤原光永
- Date
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制作年 AD18
- Title
- シッポウツナギジアゲハチョウモンエカガミ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
The Kaifuso, a collection of Chinese-style poems written and compiled in the 8th c., contains several poems that sing of the fluttering of butterflies. The Manyoshu (lit. “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”), a contemporary collection of Japanese-style poems, however, does not have any poems referring to butterflies. One can assume that appreciating the flutter of this insect was a Chinese pursuit. Although the butterfly motif was used in early-day mirrors, it was depicted almost like an accessory to other main motifs, such as birds and flowers. It was after the Kamakura Period and onward that the butterfly motif was used as a mirror decoration in its own right.
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- Title (EN)
- Handled Mirror with Butterfly Motif
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1面
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 銀鍍金／柄：籐巻き／外箱：漆塗り
- Attachments
- 外箱（漆塗）
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