id:			98055
accession number:	1917.681
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.681
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:21.981000

Mirror, 794–1185. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Bronze; diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of D. Z. Norton 1917.681

title:				Mirror
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creation date:			794–1185
creation date earliest:		794
creation date latest:		1185
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creditline:			Gift of D. Z. Norton
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culture:	Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
technique:	bronze
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見
	opening date:   2019-04-09T04:00:00
	<i>Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka and Co., sold to Mr. D. Z. Norton)
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	Mr. D. Z. Norton [1851-1928], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1917
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1917-
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wall description:
The polished side of this eight-pointed mirror has an incised design of the kami Takemikazuchi riding on a deer from Kashima to Mount Mikasa, where he takes up residence. Although the mirror itself could have been produced as early as the 1300s, the incised line work has a fresh quality more consistent with later works, and the image may have been executed as late as the 1600s–1800s. Unlike most painted images of the episode, this incised one includes neither the sakaki tree branch supporting the Buddhist manifestations of the five Kasuga kami, nor Takemikazuchi’s companions. The back of the mirror has a design of two phoenixes.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 65
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136092

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: 54
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n56

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 67
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n71

	Vilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. <em>Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 84-85, no. 30
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.681/1917.681_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.681/1917.681_full.tif