Artworks

Mirror with design of four buildings

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 300–450 · mirror · Imperial Household Agency

A bronze mirror made in Japan whose back shows four buildings — a house raised on piles, a house with walled sides and gabled roof, a pit house and a raised granary. 1 Mason 2005, p. 34, fig. 33. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.