Sacred Mirror (Shinkyo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AT SOMETIME THE INSCRIPTION ON THIS WAS TRANSLATED TO INDICATE THAT THIS WAS A SACRED ITEM FROM THE GION SHINTO SHRINE. ROUND, WITHOUT HANDLE, ONLY WITH A COLUMN OF CHARACTERS DOWN THE PEBBLED SIDE. OF COPPER. JAN. 1969 WHEN INVENTORIED, NO CASE WAS FOUND. *R. ELDER. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C.
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 110
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sacred Mirror
physicalDescription: label: Depth
content: 15 cm