A Collection Of Chinese Han-Wei Epigraphic Mirrors In Japanese Materials

In recent years, Scholars have been showing increasingly interest in the epigraphs on Chinese bronze mirrors. Amongst all the published material on Chinese Han-Wei (汉魏) bronze mirror, yet there is a part of them being kept in Japanese books. In view of this, by adopting a variety of resources, such as monographs, antiquecatalogs and electronic databases, etc., the author collected 1188 epigraphic bronze mirrors in Japanese books and deciphered the epigraphs, for the maximum convenience in future research work. Amongst these materials, the auther noticed a considerable number of unique and rare mirror epigraphic scripts, which could benefit Chinese mirror epigraphy.