The Bronze Shoes And Other Miscellaneous Relics Of King Muryeong In Baekje Kingdom, Korea

The relics I’d like to introduce in this posting were the Bronze Shoes and Other Miscellaneous.
The common point of these relics was those were found in Korea only according to the researcher.

There were two sets of the bronze shoes.
It seemed that there were different patterns between King and Queen’s shoes.
But it was difficult for me to distinguish the differences between them.

King’s

Queen’s

What I found was the patterns of King’s was based on the hexagonal patterns and Queen’s looked like tree or flame.

There must be the meaning in the patterns of King and Queen’s Shoes patterns.

I think I need to look other patterns of shoes carefully to find out the something meaningful subject.

On the wall of the exhibition room, there were lot’s of bending jade. I posted on the bending jade in the posting relating to the relics of Shilla Kingdom. At that time I introduced that the bending jade meant the Royal authority.

This bending jades were found only in Korea.
So the fact the bending jades were found in Baekje showed us the intimate cultural background between Baekje and Shilla.

Some scholars seemed to estimate that civilization of Shilla could come from the sea.
But this bending jade showed us that there existed the common cultural historical background between Shilla and Baekje which was originated from Goguryeo of Manchuria.

I could hear interesting interpretation about the original image of the bending jade from the researcher. She told me that the bending jade was as similar as the embryo.

If so, the bending jade means that the very start of the life.
I though her interpretation was reasonable.

There were small golden decorations near the bending jades.
The researcher explained that those were the caps for the bending jades.
Those small caps were very delicate.

There were golden works in the vicinity of the bending jade.
As I posted before, the excavation for King Muryeong’s tomb was the example of bad case.
The scholars had not the experience in the excavation and the proper measures had not been executed while excavating.

So, even though the small golden pieces were displayed, nobody knows the exact meaning and function of those items.
It was sorry to hear that explanation from the researcher.

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