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Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara (front)

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Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara (back)

銅線刻十一面觀音菩薩像鏡

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日本平安平治元年(1159)銅鏡。像鏡係指在銅鏡上線刻或墨繪佛、菩薩、曼荼羅等,作為禮拜或修法之用,亦有懸掛於大殿或佛龕內,以示莊嚴。一九九三年指定為日本重要文化財。
 鏡作圓形,銅鑄,鏡面中央線刻十一面觀音菩薩坐像,其頭上有十一面,分三層排列,五官均以點線畫出,其面貌豐腴,眉間有白毫,目光平視,嘴角內收。束髮垂雙肩,胸飾瓔珞,左手執長莖蓮花,蓮花上托寶瓶,右手垂置膝上,持念珠,結跏趺坐於蓮座上。身後有單線的頭光和身光,邊緣刻飾火焰紋。
 背面鏡心作扁圓形鈕,圓鈕座,內環一周凸弦紋,素邊緣。鏡面飾流水、胡枝花、蝴蝶、鳥類等紋樣,並有蹴雕雙鉤體直書刻銘,「平治元年/潤五月廿五日/僧杲覺」,為平安時代(794~1185)有確切紀年銘文的珍貴作品。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 195.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 195.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:195.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 195).
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author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youji and Pokorski, Stefanie and Mankuang and Fan, Wen,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts },
pages = 195,
title = {{Mirror with Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara}},
volume = 18,
year = {2016}}


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