A GROUP OF BRONZE MIRRORS AND IMPLEMENTS

Hachiuma Kanesuke (1894-1960) was a powerful business man and politician in early 20th century and was originally from Hyogo Prefecture. In 1994, his third son, Tadasu (B. 1928) donated Korean artworks from Kanesuke’s collection founded in the 1920s and 1930s to the National Museum of Korea. The donated works include stone knives, bronze ornaments from the Three Kingdoms Period and gilt-bronze Buddhist sculptures from Unified Silla Dynasty, could be viewed at Hachiuma Tadasu Gallery in the museum.