Mirror with central linked-bow design
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制作年 AD1
- Title
- ナイコウカモンキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001033-0000
- 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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- Classification
- Art
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The exhibited mirror, which is related to the inscribed mirrors with linked-bow design of the Former Han Dynasty, is typical of the Later Han Dynasty. The inscribed band of the early mirrors was gradually replaced by a petal-like design, typically made of eight linked petals, on the inner band. As seen here, this later design is aptly described as an “inner flower,” but it is a designation used only in Japan’s artistic circles. In China, this kind of mirror is simply called a mirror with linked-bow design. “Mirrors with inner flower designs,” or central linked-bow mirrors, have often been recovered from ancient burial mounds in Japan. The central knob of this kind of mirror is often decorated either with a four-leaf pattern or a deformed four-leaf pattern, which looks like four flying bats. The undecorated spaces around the knob (also called a knot or boss) are often inscribed with auspicious expressions, such as on longevity. And the outer area is often decorated with a cloud-and-thunder motif made of spirals or eight concentric circles, with the spaces in between filled with oblique or parallel lines.
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- Title (EN)
- Mirror with central linked-bow design
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Quantity 1面
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 銀色メッキ
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