They both, however, are Japanese Edo-period ones and potentially not as old as the newly discovered Chinese counterpart. There are only two others in possession of rare Buddhist themed ones, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tokyo National Museum. Sung, Cincinnati Art Museum is now part of a small handful of institutions in the world in possession of this type of magic mirror. "So, she used her cell phone (flashlight) and it worked." The mirror was later taken to have experiments performed on it using powerful and focused lights, which would reveal the Buddha’s image.Īccording to Dr. Sung said on a video call from Cincinnati to CNN. "I asked her to shine a strong, focused light on the mirror," Dr. A conservation expert accompanied her to do the due diligence. This prompted her to visit the museum’s storage last spring and see the mirror, which has been part of the museum’s collection for over 50 years. (Rob Deslongchamps/ Cincinnati Art Museum ) Hou-mei Sung, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s curator of East Asian art, next to the Buddhist Bronze Mirror. Peering Through Time: Early Mesoamerican Mirrors for Grooming and Divination.Researchers Discover Secrets Behind Magic Mirrors and a Mysterious Shaman Queen.She saw an uncanny resemblance to mirrors from Japan’s Edo-period, though it was smaller than ones held in museums in Tokyo, Shanghai, and New York City, and had a more complex Chinese script style, reports Artnet News. Hou-mei Sung, is responsible for bringing this beautiful historical artifact to light. The museum's curator of East Asian art, Dr. when light is projected on them, the mirrors appear transparent and reveal characters or a decorative design.” They are transparent or light penetrating mirrors, and according to the museum, “. A magic mirror is an ancient Chinese art form dated to the Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD). Last displayed in 2017, the magic mirror had previously been sitting in storage for decades on a backroom shelf. There are also six characters on the reverse surface ‘南無阿彌陀佛’, that are a reference to Amitabha Buddha, an important figure of East Asian Buddhism. The Buddha is seated in his quintessential meditative pose, whilst rays of light emanate from him. Magic Mirrors and Lighting: Japan and China Part of a vast collection of hundreds of thousands of other artifacts with it, it turns out that this is an extremely rare magic mirror, with the image of the Buddha shrouded in mystical beams, reports CNN. Hiding in plain sight – in the storage of Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art collection, a seemingly unremarkable bronze mirror from the 15th and 16th century China.
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