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Rock landscape with rectangular planter "Floating Bridge of Dreams" (Yume-no-ukihashi)
This miniature landscape display is said to have been a personal favorite of the Japanese emperor Go-Daigo (r. 1318–39), who gave it the name Yume-no-ukihashi, or “Floating Bridge of Dreams,” the title of the last chapter of the classic Japanese novel The Tale of Genji. The rock was recorded as being from Jiangsu, China, while the planter is an elegant example of archaistic Chinese bronzes featuring entwined dragons. This connection to the Japanese emperor further demonstrates such archaistic bronzes’ importance in Japan.
