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.
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Around 1150
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Zhu Xi's Four Books canon (1190)
- Third Crusade (1189)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (1100)
- Reign of Philip II Augustus of France (1180)
- Chartres Cathedral built (1194)