Essay On Japanese Bronze Mirror

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The Japanese bronze mirror is a bronze mirror that was found in Japan it is thought to have been made between 1100 to 1200 CE Kyoto, Japan .(MacGregor, pg 373) The dimensions of the bronze mirror are 11 centimeters in width. The mirror was found about 900 years ago in Japan in a temple pool it is thought that the mirror was thrown into the water to be dedicated to one of the Gods. This mirror is a size of a saucer, a circle in shape with no hook on the back because you would have originally put a loop through it to hang up. It is not made out of the shiny material that we think of nowadays as a mirror but it was made of bronze and most mirrors back in that time period when made out of metal and polished every day and excessively so you …show more content…

The message on the back of the mirror and is quite simply one of eternal love. In Japan, they thought that mirrors were the go-between to be able to speak with the Gods. The myths of mirrors say two conflicting ideas one is that if the mirror is uncovered then it will it can attract spirits, two is that a having a mirror in your house make spirits be warded off. The reason this mirror relates to language is the fact that these mirrors in Japan or a sacred treasure was thought to be able to communicate with gods. When this mirror was found ,years later they drained the pool only to find another 600 mirrors buried in this pond that has been in the water for centuries. They also found that most of the mirrors were all of the same compositions and they have most of the same ideas of love on them which mean they were probably made by people close to each other. The reason all these mirrors ended up in this Temple was the serenity of the place and shrine that surrounded the pool, it is thought that the mirror was hung in some rich person 's house and they gave it to a priest or they themselves made this journey to where we found it today so it could be used as a message to the …show more content…

(MacGregor, pg 91) The dimensions of the tablet are 9.4 centimeters in height, 6.8 centimeters in width, and 2.3 centimeters in depth. The tablet is rectangular in shape with carvings on it that you can tell was done by a reed stylus pressed into the soft clay and then the tablet would be baked after it is written on. This piece is one of the early written pieces but it is not poetry or fiction or history which is what we usually call literature because early literature was oral it was spoken you have to memorize the stories that were passed down through the generations. People back then wrote down what they could not learn by heart what they couldn 't make into poetry so it is mainly early writings that we have our after record-keeping and counting or in the case of this particular tablet it is counting the number of beers. Writing has emerged independently in much different of the early cultures such as Mesopotamia,Egypt, China, and Central America all of them have their expanding population and their own type of written language this tablet is from a Mesopotamian point of language. This piece is related to our history of language because this tablet gives us what was originally wrote about it gives us the clues to be able to have an understanding of what was important enough that these people needed to write down. Their

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