Overview

Designs with distant views like this suddenly became prominent in the late 17th century. Using a spatula on the surface of the mold, artists drew just the outline of the mountain, and pushed a little deeper toward the ends of the outline so the mountain would be placed in high relief. This was a technique often used from around this period until the early 18thcentury. Hitomi Fujiwara Shigetsugu was a Kyoto bronze mirror maker with the title Izumi Daijô. There is another surviving mirror inscribed with this name and title whose year of production is at the end of the Edo period, but whether a successive line of mirror makers with this title existed throughout the period between the 17th and 19th centuries is not known.