{"id":460,"date":"2021-02-22T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=460"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T00:54:15","slug":"bronze-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/image\/bronze-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"985\" src=\"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-1024x985.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-1024x985.png 1024w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-768x739.png 768w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-675x649.png 675w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM-480x462.png 480w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.34.23-AM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Bronze Mirror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Period:<\/strong> Middle Kofun Period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 400\/499<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Culture:<\/strong> Yamoto <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Medium:<\/strong> Bronze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dimensions:<\/strong> Diameter: 12.90cm (excl. jingles) &#8211; Taken from the Google Arts &amp; Culture Page<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Repository:<\/strong> British Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image Description:<\/strong> Although this bronze mirror now has little more appeal than an old dining room plate, it was once a pristinely shined, copper, ritual piece. Now, a patina green coat covers most of the surface area, disregarding the small areas of cleaned copper that still shine through. The mirror is 12.90cm in diameter, not including the five circular balls evenly placed around the perimeter. At the mirrors center, there is a protruding bump surrounded by five little dimples, comparable to the five balls surrounding the edge of the mirror. Along the inside edge of the mirror there is a triangular ring pattern that repeats itself moving, inward three times. A mirror like this would frequently be tied around the waste of a Shaman, someone with a connection to the spiritual world. An object like this would classically be used in death rituals as bronze mirrors, exactly like this one, are a symbol of the sun god, Amaterasu \u014cmikami, the one who &#8220;illuminates the heaven&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> \u00a9 Trustees of the British Museum <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yamato_period\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yamato_period<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/asset\/bronze-mirror\/wQFEObRHrxndvw\">https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/asset\/bronze-mirror\/wQFEObRHrxndvw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/A_OA-544\">https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/A_OA-544<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Amaterasu\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Amaterasu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Bronze Mirror Location: Japan Period: Middle Kofun Period Date: 400\/499 Culture: Yamoto Medium: Bronze Dimensions: Diameter: 12.90cm (excl. jingles)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6,3],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-bronze","tag-japan","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}