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Haniwa warrior
Kofun Period
Samurai Origins
Often hollow ith holes. Whistling? Ropes?
Used for protection? |
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Tomb of Emperor Nintoku
Sakai, Osaka Prefecture
Early 5th Century
Selected tombsite in his 67th year and died 20 years later
458 acres
Site has not been disturbed because it is thought to be the resting place of an ancestor of the current day imperial family |
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Horyuji
Near Nara
7th Century
Oldest surviving wooden temple in world
Site of Kondo - Golden hall |
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Five storied pagoda at Horyuji
7th Century/Hakuho Period
Relationship to Stupa
Many scenes and statues inside
Interlocking wooden beams
heart pillar - pillar that runs through center from top to bottom
Place for religious reliquaries to be kept |
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Shaka Triad
Gilt Bronze
623 CE
Tori Busshi
Kondo at Horyuji
Commissioned by Empress Suiko to aid in recovery of Shotoku
very symmetrical and stylized
Heads and hands enlarged to emphasize
Historical Buddha |
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Yumedono Kannon
Early 7th Century
Gilt Wood
Yumedono (Hall of dreams) at Horyuji,
Camphor wood - aromatic, repels termites
Bodhisattva - charactirzed by more ornage clothing and jewelry, longer hair |
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Tamamushi Shrine
cypress and camphor wood with lacquer
c. 650
Horyuji Treasure House
Personal shrine for private worship
dated earlier than the building it is in, clue to earlier architecture
Hungry Tigress Jataka - buddha jumps off cliff to feed hungry tigress and cubs |
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Amida Triad
Painting from west wall of Kondo at Horyuji
c. 710
Hakuho Period
Seishi, Amida, Kannon
Iron wire lines
faces very round
Buddha of the west - pure land, paradise
Little hole tracing |
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Yakushi Triad
Late 7th century
Hondo Hall at Yukushiji Nara
Bronze
Nikko, Yakushi, Gakko
Sunlight, medicine, moon
tin and arsenic added to darken bronze
fatter, figures fuller and more 3-d
mandorlas added later
missing medicine pouch |
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Great Buddha Hall at Toadiji
Diabutsuden
Great Eastern Temple
Near Nara
17th Century
Largest wooden structure under one foon
Built by Emperor Shomu
Contains the gigantic Birushana (Cosmic) Buddha which the temple was built around
Few original parts of the Birushana still survive
Consecrated in 752 (nara period) |
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Shukongojin
painted clay
From the Hokkedo, sub-temple at Hodaiji
733 Nara period
guardian figure who carries a lightening bold
ward off evil spirits
forceful spiritual awakening |
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The Priest Ganjin
from founder's hall at Toshodaiji
763 (year of his death) (nara period)
dry lacquer with paint
earliest true portrait sculpture in japan
ganjin, a buddha spiritual leader who came from china to japan to found temple
darker marks are incense |
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Birushana Buddha
Kondo at Todaiji
Late 8th century (nara period)
dry lacquer with gold leaf
getting fatter
mandorla is lots of little buddhas - symbolism towards cosmic buddha, contains all other buddhas |
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Womb World Mandala
toji temple at kyoto
late 9th century (early heian period)
hanging scrolls with color on silk
copies of mandalas brought back from china by Kukai
twelve concentric squares
Dainichi buddha sits in the center, hands in gesture of meditation
four directional buddhas |
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Diamond world mandala
nine rectangles or buddha worlds
Dainichi in the center of the top square
wisdom fist |
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Fudo Myoo
Kodo at Toji near Kyoto
839 (early heian period)
painted wood
holds rope to bind enemies or pull to safety
holds sword to cut through ignorance
shows teeth
surrounded by flames
sits on rock to represent immovability |
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Seated Shaka
Miroku hall at Muroji, south of nara
9th century (early to mid heian)
wood with white gesso and traces of paint
single block (ichi-boku) construction
Rolling wave patterns on robes
guest buddha |
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Ise Shu
1100 (late heian)
page from book mounted as hanging scroll
ink, silver/gold ink, on scroll
A poem by the earliest female master
Daughter of fujiwara family and favorite consort of emperor uda
collage of different colored papers suggesting hilly landscape
calligraphy - running grass script |
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Minori - The Rites - chapter from Tale of Genji Scrolls
early 12th century
ink and color on paper
based on tale of genji by lady murasaki
Genji visits the dying murasaki |
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Scene from Ban Dainagon Scrolls
Late 12th century (late heian)
ink and color on paper
emaki
The ladies of the Otomo household react to the news that their lord is banished |
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Byodo-in (phoenix hall)
at uji south of kyoto
1053
former fujiwara villa turned into temple devoted to amida
Amida statue inside (mid heian period)
wood with lacquered cloth and gold leaf
artist: jocho |
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Descent (Raigo) of Amida and 25 bodhisattvas
Gold and color on silk
chion-in in kyoto
Amida made promise that he would descend and welcome people to the promised land |
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