... district of Nara Prefecture (Fig. 1), the a central Buddha image and two flanking bodhisattvas. icons of its kondo ("golden hall") are major monuments of Pentads, less common, are certainly not unknown, but Japanese Buddhist sculpture. As individual works, these almost invariably consist of a central...

... Buddha versions expounded the miraculous healing power of statues, I shall trace the history of Yakushi’s icono- Yakushi. The fundamental difference between them is graphical transformations during the Nara and Heian that the Yakushi Su¯ tra highlights only one Medicine periods, as shown...

... period (ca. 59o–ca. 65o), and the important state patronage that generally characterizes the art of the Nara period (710-794). The iconographical identity of the figure...

... and a five-story pagoda (Goju¯noto¯, Fig. 2) located side by side, surrounded by a corridor 回廊 (Kairo¯ ) that o¯ryu¯ji is a Buddhist temple complex located presently connects to the Lecture Hall Ko¯ do¯ )to Hto the southwest of the city of Nara...

... on early o Mochiyuru no Tokushitsu in which he described Japanese Buddhist art, particularly the sculpture of Buddhist themes as suitable for this purpose. Since Bud- Nara and other Buddhist centers dating from the Ten- dhism has figured strongly and intimately in Japanese pyo¯ era (710–794). He also...

... eighth-century wood-core dry lacquer statues from the art, in the belles-lettres tradition, like that of Bernard Nara temples. These articles were important road maps Berenson. for future studies: rigorous visual analysis followed by In 1959, Rosenfield...

.... doned Shingon temple near Nara. Long thought to be lost, those works are datable to 1258 and attributed to Yanagisawa practiced a method of empirical, scientific Chomyo (1233-1295), a well-documented master active at inquiry embraced...

... precedence of a thing over another cannot always be ascertained either in reference to absolute Fig.3. Buddha. Provenance unknown. H. 135 cm. Lahore Mu- time scale or to relative formal sequence. The term ‘‘re- seum. From The Route of Buddhist Art, Nara...

... it. In the same vein, many Nara-ehon of the Heike monogatari and other books, which were often in trousseaux, provided furigana (syllabic characters accompanying the text to aid reading). Teaching ideal womanhood was an aim of elite women's reading of the Heike monogatari . Most of the books listed...

... in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often made comparisons Although Ko Yu-seop’s research was closer to art his- linking Western and Asian art. For example, Okakura tory than to aesthetics, the aesthetic education he received Tenshin (1862–1913) saw the culture of the Nara at Keijo...

..., and the Yakushiji constructed in Nara in the 730s.47 This is not to say that monasteries on the Japanese islands were known to the Khitan.48 Rather, construction...

...: Ry云bunkan, 1976). Dynasty Painting of standing Amstbha of Hagiwaradera in Kagawa 24. The Pu二一Land Mandala, Nara National Museum (Nara: Nara Prefecture,, Yamato Bunka, vol. 72pecember 1983): pp. I5-24;Woo- National Museum, 1983), p. 233. thak Chung," Transformation...

... that the Korean peninsula played in the forma- torically significant, temple of Ho¯ ryu¯ ji in Nara. As he tion of early Japanese Buddhist images, well before worked on this project, new material was unearthed in Korean art history became a burgeoning field in the an ongoing series of excavations at Kibi Pond...

... ]. Kyoto : Tankōsha , 1989 . Nara National Museum 奈良国立博物館 , ed. Seichi Ninpō: Nihon bukkyō 1300-nen no genryū: subete wa koko kara yatte kita 聖地寧波:日本仏教 1300 年の源流:すべてはここからやって来た [ Sacred Ningbo: Gateway to 1,300 years of Japanese Buddhism ]. Nara : Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan , 2009 . Nasu...

... 159 Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas Jennifer Casler-Price, Curator of Asian and Non-Western Art Gigaku Mask of the Karura Type. Japan. Nara period (710...