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The largest statue in this list and the largest gilt bronze statue in the world, and the main hall of Tōdai-ji, in which it is located, is the largest wooden structure in the world. [100] Nara period, 752. Head is a recast from the Edo period, hands date to the Momoyama period: Gilded bronze Seated Rushana Buddha: 14.868m
Various items from a sutra mound including a statue of Kannon Bodhisattva, a statue of the thousand-armed Goddess of Mercy (千手観音), a copper sheet with an engraving of Maitreya Bodhisattva, two bronze mirrors, a bronze sutra container, fragments of a hiōgi (檜扇) folding fans, remains of short swords and knives, glass beads, two ...
The Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) which is an ancient history of Japan compiled in 720, states that haniwa was ordered at the time of an empress's death by the emperor who regretted the custom of servants and maids of the deceased following their master in death, and ordered that clay figures be molded and placed around the kofun burial ...
two statues of Magnolia compressa wood (オガタマノキ); after the 1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami they were recovered from the coast of Sakieda Bay (崎枝湾) [7: Enkaku-ji Wooden Elephant and Ofuda 木彫円覚寺白象並びに趣意書木札
Lists of films produced in Japan include: List of Japanese films before 1910; List of Japanese films of the 1910s; List of Japanese films of the 1920s; List of Japanese films of the 1930s; List of Japanese films of the 1940s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1950s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1960s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1970s
Oldest extant example of a Mandala of the Two Worlds in Japan, believed to be a faithful copy of the mandalas that Kūkai brought from Japan 0829 Heian period , 829–833 hanging scroll mandala Two hanging scrolls ( mandalas ), gold and silver on dark bluish purple damask, 411.0 cm × 366.5 cm (161.8 in × 144.3 in) ( Diamond Realm Mandala ...
The dogū was recovered intact in 1918 from the Wanishi Site (輪西遺跡) in what was then the village of Wanishi (輪西村), today's city of Muroran. [3] The site was part of an area used for company housing by the then Hokkaido Steel and Iron Company (北海道製鐵株式會社), [3] which was established in 1917 [4] and merged with the predecessor of today's Japan Steel Works in 1919 ...
The Jōmon Venus (縄文のビーナス, Jōmon no Bīnasu) is a dogū, a humanoid clay female figurine from the Middle Jōmon period (c. 2500 BC), [2] discovered in 1986 in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It was designated a National Treasure in 1995, the first Jōmon-period artifact to be so designated. [2] [3]