Huzhou Mirror (English: Hu-zhou-jing)

Japanese: 湖州鏡 - こしゅうきょう（英語表記）Hu-zhou-jing

Mirrors produced in the Song Dynasty in China, mainly in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, as well as in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Changzhou, Xiuzhou, and Raozhou, Jiangxi Province. Many of these mirrors have no pattern on the back, and it is common to cast an inscription such as "Huzhou Shinseki-ya, Nenjishu Shoko." They were also exported overseas. The main shapes are round, square, boar's eye, handled, eight-ridged, six-ridged, and six-flowered, and these shapes had a great influence on Japanese mirrors. There are examples of Huzhou mirrors unearthed from ruins in Korea, and they have also been excavated from sutra mounds in Japan.

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Japanese:

中国，宋代に浙江省湖州を中心として蘇州，杭州，明州，常州，秀州，江西省饒州の諸地方で製作された鏡。鏡背に文様のない素文鏡が多く，「湖州真石家，念二叔照子」などの銘文を鋳出すのが一般的である。外国にも輸出した。形体は円鏡，方鏡，猪目鏡，柄付き鏡，八稜，六稜，六花などがおもであるが，この形体は日本の和鏡に多大の影響を与えた。朝鮮の遺跡から湖州鏡が出土する例があり，また日本の経塚などからも出土する。

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