Japanese bronze mirror
AD 1100-1200 · Resource
A circular cast-bronze mirror from Heian-period Japan, recovered from a sacred votive pond. Its decoration of cranes and pine symbolises long life and fidelity.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1150
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- Third Crusade (1189)