Hua-xiang-jing (English: Hua-xiang-jing)

Japanese: 画像鏡 - がぞうきょう（英語表記）Hua-xiang-jing

A type of Han-style mirror. This refers to mirrors made in the period from the Later Han to the Six Dynasties period in China, with designs on the backs of mirror stones similar to those of the Later Han. They include images of gods and human figures such as the King Father of the East and the Queen Mother of the West, depictions of scenes from hunting, warfare, horse-drawn carriages, music, singing, and dancing, famous historical tales, and even flying celestial figures influenced by Buddhism. The inner area is divided into four equal parts by milk, and the images are arranged around the outer area, with designs of flowing clouds, birds and animals, images, and sawtooth patterns. Hundreds of mirror images have been excavated from the Shaoxing tombs in Zhejiang Province along with calendar mirrors from the Later Han and Three Kingdoms periods. They have also been excavated from the Lelang tombs in the Jiangnan region and Korea. In Japan, Chinese-made mirror images have often been excavated from tombs, and imitation mirrors have also been made, such as the mirror inscribed with the year of the Guiwei era at Sumida Hachimangu Shrine in Wakayama.

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Japanese:

漢式鏡の一種。中国の後漢から六朝時代にかけてつくられた鏡で鏡背の文様が後漢の画像石に類似したものをいう。中国古代の神仙思想を表わす東王父，西王母などの神人像，狩猟，交戦，車馬，音曲歌舞などの風俗図，有名な歴史物語を図示するもの，あるいは仏教の影響を受けた飛天図もある。内区を乳で4等分して図が配置され，外区に流雲文，禽獣文，画像文，鋸歯文などをめぐらす。浙江省紹興の古墳群から後漢，三国時代の紀年鏡とともに出土した数百面の画像鏡は著名。また江南地方，朝鮮の楽浪古墳からも出土する。日本では中国製画像鏡が古墳から発掘される例が多く，和歌山の隅田八幡宮の癸未年銘鏡のように仿製鏡もつくられた。

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