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As we all know, China is one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world and a country with a long history of more than 5,000 years. The long history has created a broad and profound Chinese culture, and culture has promoted the comprehensive development of all aspects, and ultimately pushed the wheel of history forward. In this way, history and culture are intertwined and mutually accomplished, and many exquisite cultural relics and treasures have been born. As the carrier of culture and the witness of history, cultural relics have irreplaceable and important value for any country, and the loss of any cultural relics is a regret of a country.
▲The Izumiya Bokokan museum in Japan, which specializes in Chinese cultural relics
Unfortunately, China has lost unimaginably precious cultural relics in modern times. From the twentieth year of Daoguang (1840 AD), the great powers took turns to bully our country, selling and robbing a large number of treasures from our country at low prices, either openly or secretly. Of course, this is only one aspect, China's neighboring countries have many cultural relics that have been circulated in other ways, such as Japan's close contacts with China in history, and the Return of Tang envoys also brought back a large number of treasures. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan set up a special cultural relics search force, which was quickly packed and packed after each time the cultural relics were looted, and then quickly arranged to be transported back to the local treasures. To this day, Japan still exhibits a large number of Chinese cultural relics, and even built more than ten museums represented by the Izumiya HirokoKan. Today, Ziyuan will introduce you to the three favorite Chinese cultural relics of the Japanese, which even the emperor cherishes very much.
▲ Golden Seal of the King of Han Dynasty
The first treasure is the famous "Golden Seal of the King of Han Dynasty". This square seal was given to the king of Wei (倭) by Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, with a side length of 2.3 cm, a height of about 0.9 cm on the printing table, and a snake-shaped button attached to the platform. At that time, it was a symbol of the legitimacy of the rule of the Uighur king, so it was highly valued by later Generations of Japanese rulers. Due to its age, the seal was unfortunately lost, and since then it has not been heard of in history. It was not until the fourth year of Emperor Kwangge's reign (1784 AD) that two sharecroppers named Hideharu and Kihei stumbled upon the golden seal while ploughing and digging trenches. After the gold seal was unearthed, it lasted for a hundred years until 1979, when it was donated to the Fukuoka City Museum in Japan.
▲ Manuscript of the Bodhisattva Sutra (partial)
The second treasure is the Bodhisattva Sutra. This sutra was copied by monks as a national treasure in the sixteenth year of the Western Wei Dynasty, and is also the oldest handwritten scripture in the world today, and its historical and research value cannot be measured in money. There are currently two theories about how this treasure flowed into Japan, one is that it was taken away by the Tang Dynasty when the Japanese sent Tang envoys back to China, and the other is that it was forcibly plundered in modern times. But in any case, this ancient scripture has no connection with China, and it is impossible to recover it, and it is now in the Chien-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan.
▲Obsidian Tianmu tea bowl
The third treasure is the well-known Obsidian Tianmu Tea Bowl. The Yao changing Tianmu tea bowl is a tea set dedicated to tea fighting in the Song Dynasty, and the Japanese people love this treasure very much, and even use the "universe in the bowl" to describe it as a "divine product". Carefully observing the bowl wall of the Obsidian Tianmu Tea Bowl, there is indeed a feeling of being in the vast universe, feeling unpredictable. According to historical records, there were originally two tea bowls in the Obscure Tenmoku, which immediately became a treasure sought after by the princes and nobles after they spread to Japan. One of them was acquired by Oda Nobunaga, but unfortunately it was destroyed in the "Honnoji Rebellion" due to frequent conquests at that time. The other, which belonged to Tokugawa Ieyasu, was revered as the secret treasure of the Tokugawa family, and was given to his wet nurse Kasuga Ichimon by the next three generations of shoguns, Tokugawa Iemitsu.
▲ "Honnoji No change" scene painting
During the Meiji period, the Obscura Tenmoku Tea Bowl passed to mitsubishi President Iwasaki Komita, but he believed that this bowl was a world-famous instrument and did not deserve to be used, so Iwasaki Koyata never used it to drink tea in his life. Due to its age, the production technique of the Obsidian Tianmu Tea Bowl has long been lost, and the only surviving Obsidian Tianmu Tea Bowl has long been introduced to Japan, so it is impossible to trace it. At present, the Obscura Tenmoku Tea Bowl is stored in the Shizukado Bunko in Tokyo, Japan, for world visitors to visit and taste.
Resources:
"Lost Overseas National Treasures" and "Restoration of Cultural Relics Losses"