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Mirror with Fish Scale Design and a Pair of Birds
- Museum No.
- EK17-79
Photo No：477-11745
Color type：Color
| Title | Mirror with Fish Scale Design and a Pair of Birds |
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| Artist | |
| Category | Metalwork (E), Bronze Mirrors |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Nanbokuchō |
| Century | 14th |
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| Materials | |
| Dimensions | Diameter 11.3cm Rim height 0.6cm Rim width 0.3cm |
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The design on this mirror is called urokomon ("fish scale pattern"), and it was very popular until early modern times (16th-19th centuries). A tachi ("long sword") mounting with Hyôgo chains from the Kamakura period (1185-1333), which was an offering given to Hime Shrine in Niu of Wakayama Prefecture, is known as the earliest extant art object with urokomon design. This mirror is also decorated with a saw-tooth pattern combined with a raised-bead pattern around the rim, suggesting that it was probably produced in the late 14th century. A mirror with a similar rim design with decorations of cypress fence, pines, wisterias, and birds also exists in Saien-dô Hall of Hôryû-ji Temple in Nara. Because that one is inscribed 1417 (Ôei 24), there is a possibility that this work was produced slightly earlier than the late 14th century.
Japan-Nambokucho