A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese ...

Early mirrors like this bronze one were all made of metal, which was then so highly polished that you could literally see your face in it. Like so much else in Japanese culture, mirrors originally ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...