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Although most are wooden, 12 entries in the list are bronze, 11 are lacquer, 7 are made of clay and 1 entry, the Usuki Stone Buddhas, is a stone sculpture. Typically hinoki, Japanese nutmeg, sandalwood and camphorwood were the woods used for the wooden sculptures. Wooden sculptures were often lacquered or covered with gold-leaf.
The earliest religious paintings in Japan were copied using mainland styles and techniques, and are similar to the art of the Chinese Sui dynasty (581–618) or the late Sixteen Kingdoms around the early 5th century. They comprise the oldest extant non-primitive paintings in Japan.
List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords), for craft items that are swords; List of National Treasures of Japan (historical materials), for historical materials of various type; List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings), for paintings; List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures), for sculptures
Japan Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [1] Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [1] Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum: Art, archaeology and history [1] Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum: 1,800 Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka: 8,200 (As of February 2022) Modern art [3] Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum
Most (109) sculptures are wooden, twelve entries in the list are bronze, eleven are lacquer, seven are made of clay, and one entry, the Usuki Stone Buddhas, consists of a group of stone sculptures. The statues vary in size from just 10 cm (3.9 in) to 13 m (43 ft) and 15 m (49 ft) for the Great Buddhas of Nara and Kamakura.
The stimulus of Western art forms returned sculpture to the Japanese art scene and introduced the plaster cast, outdoor heroic sculpture, and the school of Paris concept of sculpture as an "art form". Such ideas adopted in Japan during the late 19th century, together with the return of state patronage, rejuvenated sculpture.
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