Before a bronze mirror is used as a
makeup tool, it was manufactured as a symbolic implement for either a sky or a
dignity, that is
similar to a sky. It is confirmed through bronze blades and grave goods which
are found together with bronze mirrors in old
mounds and the prehistoric ruins. Moreover, the bronze mirrors with a certain
date such as the Three Kingdoms bronze mirrors excavated from
the royal mausoleum of King Muryeong in Gongju and Backyusokyeong(small
mirror with hundred breast pattern)
from Geumryeong-tomb
in Gyeongju are
good materials which tells the position of the bronze mirrors. According to a
myth or a historical
fact, a
bronze was used to reflect a will of heaven or tell fortune as a tool with
sacredness. An anecdote
of King Gongmin and Yi Seong-gye’s
meeting for the founding of Joseon describes the symbolic role of mirror which delivers
Heaven’s
decree. Through
the shape and design of bronze mirrors, it gives an an account and various
symbols of ancestors. Supported by Coreana Cosmetics, Co., Ltd.