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  2. Japanese sculpture - Wikipedia

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    In 710–793, Japanese sculptors learned high Tang style and produced a style called Tenpyō sculpture, which shows realistic face, massive solid volume, natural drapery, and representation of sentiment. Emperor Shōmu ordered the colossal gilt bronze Vairocana Buddha in Tōdai-ji temple, which was completed in 752. Although the statue has been ...

  3. Category:Japanese sculptors - Wikipedia

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    21st-century Japanese sculptors (29 P) + Japanese male sculptors (5 P) Japanese women sculptors (12 P) N. Netsuke-shi (10 P) Pages in category "Japanese sculptors"

  4. List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures) - Wikipedia

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    Ashura, a Japanese National Treasure sculpture from 734. In the mid-6th century, the introduction of Buddhism from Korea to Japan resulted in a revival of Japanese sculpture. Buddhist monks, artisans and scholars settled around the capital in Yamato Province (present day Nara Prefecture) and passed their techniques to native craftsmen.

  5. Unkei - Wikipedia

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    Many extant works are said to be his, but the first that can be attributed to him with any certainty is a Dainichi Nyorai at Enjō-ji in Nara (1176).. Unkei was a devout Buddhist, and records from 1183 (Heian period end) show that he transcribed two copies of the Lotus Sutra with the aid of two calligrapher monks and a woman sponsor named Akomaro. [3]

  6. Etsuro Sotoo - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, author of Birth (1985) and The Old Man and the Girl (1988) in the Art Museum Chohachi Matsuzaki and sculptures Pineapples (1993) at the Stadium of Fukuoka and Five Elements (1997) at the Institute of Fukuoka monument of 1500 m 2 dedicated to water, the wind, the sky, fire and earth. Sotoo was a visiting professor of Kyushu University ...

  7. Fumio Asakura - Wikipedia

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    Fumio Asakura (朝倉 文夫, Asakura Fumio, March 1, 1883 – April 18, 1964) was a Western-style Japanese sculptor, known as the father of modern Japanese sculpture and referred to as the "Rodin of Japan". [1] He was a prolific artist, and his work spanned the Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa periods of Japanese history. [2]

  8. Masayuki Nagare - Wikipedia

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    Sakimori (Frontier Guardian), black granite sculpture by Masayuki Nagare, 1989, Honolulu Museum of Art. Masayuki Nagare (流 政之, Nagare Masayuki, February 14, 1923 – July 7, 2018) was a modernist Japanese sculptor, nicknamed "Samurai Artist" for his commitment to traditional Japanese aesthetics. [1]

  9. Buddhist art in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Kamakura period saw a flowering of Japanese Buddhist sculpture, whose origins are in the works of Heian period sculptor Jōchō. During this period, outstanding busshi (sculptors of Buddhist statues) appeared one after another in the Kei school, and Unkei, Kaikei, and Tankei were especially famous.

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