*Tomb of Emperor Nintoko

Kofun period

late 4th.-early 5th. cent. (or about 400ce)

Sakai, Osaka pref. According to Nihon Shoki (Chronicle of Japan, 720), he selected his tomb site in his 67th year, and died 20 years later (tomb dated late 4th to early 5th C) It is the largest of the key-hole type tomb mounds- Mason # 24

*Haniwa warrior figure (Gunma pref.) Kofun period (300- 710)

Clayor earthenware

Mason # 28

*Hōryūji
(ji or dera
indicates
temple)

(Kondo and Pagoda are Hakuho period)

Near Nara

Rebuilt late
7th c --based
on original
site burned
down in 670

Oldest
surviving
wooden
temple site
in the world.

Five story pagoda (late 7th C)

Horyuji (temple) late 7^th century (Hakuho period) Wood/stone platform Mason 72

*Shaka Triad,
dated 623
(maybe a later copy?)

Gilt bronze

attributed to Tori Busshi

from Kondo at Horyuji (temple) dated by inscription 623 

Asuka period (552-645)

Commissioned by
Empress Suiko to aid
recovery of Shōtoku

Mason # 86

Note:
Symmetry
Wei (Chinese) style
Flat, frontal figures
Cascading or
waterfall drapery

*Yumedono (or Guze)
Kannon,

from the Yumedono (Hall of Dreams), Hōryūji

Early 7th C Asuka period,

Guilt/Camphor wood with gold leaf
and bronze work

Mason # 89

*Tamamushi shrine

from Horyuji Treasure house

c. 650
Mason # 90-91
Cypress and camphor wood
With lacquer and beetle wings

*Hungry tigress jataka story

*Amida Triad (Seishi, Amida, Kannon) from Kondō at Hōryūji

wall painting from 710 (end of Hakuhō period)

Mason # 101

Colors on white clay covered wall

--damaged by fire in 1949

*Details of Amida Triad – iron-wire lines

*Yakushi triad- inside
Hondō (Main hall) at
Yakushiji

Yakushi (central figure)(healing or medicine Buddha)
with Nikkō (sunlight) and
Gakkō (moonlight)
(bodhisattva figures)

Late 7th- early 8th C (c700)
Bronze

Mason # 102-103

*Great Buddha hall at Tōdaiji (Great Eastern Temple) Nara
period

 Largest single wooden structure under one roof.

-built by Emperor Shomu (died 749) dedicated 752. -Nara period

(Present building
is 17th c.-original was even larger) See Mason # 78 & 105

****built to house large bronze statue: Birushana Great Buddha (Cosmic Buddha)

Birushana Buddha (from the Kondo at) Tōdaiji – main building is the Great Buddha (Daibutsu) Hall

Nara (Nara period)  Later 8^th C

Dry lacquer with gold leaf.

A massive project, very large scale
building, tons of bronze required to
make the main image.

Birushana =Vairocana
(Cosmic Buddha; Buddha of the
Center, associated with the sun)

****building built around buddha

*Shūkongōjin
(thunderbolt bearer)-733
Painted clay
from Hokkedō, subtemple
of Tōdaiji, Nara
Mason text # 115

Original in painted clay

(from the Hokkedo, a sub-temple at) Todaiji, Nara. 733 (Nara period)

**guardian figure who carries a vajra (kongo) in the shape of a spear.

The Priest Ganjin

(from the founder’s hall at)Toshodaiji, 763 (the year of his death)

Dry lacquer with paint. (Nara period) Earliest true portrait sculpture in Japan.

Ganjin came from China and founded this temple.

Mason # 119.

Seated Shaka

(sculpture from Miroku hall at) Muroji, south of Nara. Later 9^th C. (Early to mid- Heian)

Wood with white gesso and traces of paint. Mason #165. Single block (ichi-boku) construction.

Womb world and Diamond world mandalas

from Toji (temple), Kyoto. Copies of mandalas brought back by Kukai from China.

Later 9^th C. Hanging scrolls, with color on silk. (Early Heian period) 

Mason 152, 153

Fudo Myoo (sculpture from the kodo at) Toji, Kyoto c. 839 (Early Heian period)  Painted wood.

Mason # 158

*Ban Dainagon scroll 2,

The Ōtomo household reacts to news that their
Lord has been banished.

Later half 12th C ink and color on paper.
Mason # 147

Ise shu (Page from book of poems mounted as hanging scroll) Later Heian period, c 1100. Ink, silver and gold ink on paper with collage of colored papers. Ise is name of poetess. Mason # 136.

Illustration (painting) of Minori –The Rites—chapter from Tale of Genji scrolls (emaki) early 12^th C (later Heian) Based on novel by Lady Murasaki from previous century. Genji visits the dying Murasaki. Ink and color on paper. Mason # 141.

A.View of Byodo-in (the Phoenix Hall at) Uji (south of Kyoto) dated 1053. Former Fujiwara villa converted to temple devoted to Amida.   B.Amida (statue inside the Phoenix Hall) dated 1053. (Mid-Heian period) Statue is wood, with lacquered cloth and gold leaf. Artist of Amida statue: Jocho. Mason #  172-4. (Treat these as related images)  (Shown in class Feb 14)

Descent (Raigo) of Amida and 25 Bodhisattvas. (Painting) from Chion-in, Kyoto. Early 13^th C. (Kamakura period) Gold and color on silk. Mason # 241. (Shown in class Feb 14)