...Howard Hollis The Wall-paintings of Hōryūji . By Naitō Tōichirō . Translated and edited by William Reynolds Beal Acker and Benjamin Rowland, Jr . Baltimore : Waverly Press, Inc ., for the American Council of Learned Societies, Washington, D. C, 1943 . xvii, 316 pp. Copyright ©...

...Alexander C. Soper Abstract In an earlier publication I reported briefly on the irreparable damage caused to the Hōryūji Kondō by the fire of January, 1949. After the almost total destruction of the great series of mural paintings that had been preserved there since the eighth century...

... A R D K I D D E R , J R . Tokyo: International Christian University Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum, 1999. 450 pp. $45.00 (cloth). The title of this book, The Lucky Seventh: Early Horyu-ji and Its Time, suggests that it is about the early history of the Buddhist temple Horyuji, located in the Ikaruga...

... and Its Time, suggests that it is about the early history of the Buddhist temple Horyuji, located in the Ikaruga area of Nara prefecture. This temple is one of seven allegedly established by Prince Shotoku (574 622), a key political figure and the promoter of Buddhism, according to the traditional...

...-paintings of Horyuji. By NAIT5 TOICHIRO. Translated and edited by William Reynolds Beal Acker and Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., for the American Council of Learned Societies, Washington, D. C , 1943. xvii, 316 pp. Ever since the problem was first attacked, there has been great...

... romanization of Chinese, Sanskrit, and Japanese words. Practically every possible inconsistency is to be found: Wu Tao-tzu but Li Ssu-hsun; Shosoin but Horyuji, Hsiin Hsien but Kulihsien, Hsin Cheng but Ch'ang-an and Loyang, Yiieh-Ch'ih and also Yiiehch'ih, Kuan-yin but Ti Tsang, etc. Other mistakes...

...Philip Yampolsky “Issen kyūhyaku yonjūkyū-nen no rekishi gakkai” (Historical Studies in Japan, 1949). Shigaku zasshi ., 59 , no. 5 (May 1950 ), 22 – 67 . Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 * Alexander Soper will review recent Hōryūji scholarship...

... styles become more coherent, and some of the problems mentioned by Professor Kato are dissolved. Furthermore, the clay figures of the Horyuji pagoda are such a sudden and unusual intrusion into late Hakuh5 Japan, without precedent, without comparisons elsewhere in Japan, and without any immediate follow...

...-wood sculpture, at the Hōryūji temple: I had credentials from the central government which enabled me to requisition the opening of godowns and shrines. The central space of the octagonal Yumedono was occupied by a great closed shrine, which ascended like a pillar towards the apex. The priests...

... preserved wooden buildings in Korea, for example, date from the fourteenth century, some 700 years after Horyuji, and 600 after the earliest temple building left in China, on Wu-t'ai Shan. By the fourteenth century wooden architecture in both China and Japan had reached the last, sterile stage of its...

... of plate 6) are taken out of Asuka and placed in Hakuho, where they seem to belong, then both the Asuka and the Hakuho styles become more coherent, and some of the problems mentioned by Professor Kato are dissolved. Furthermore, the clay figures of the Horyuji pagoda are such a sudden and unusual intrusion...

... the Horyuji. The descriptions seem generally complete and accurate. A minor defect, both here and in the bibliography, is that while diacritical marks in Chinese and European words and names are retained, the long-vowel marks in Japanese, no less essential, are omitted. In connection with the comments...

... of the temple as recorded in the 747 inventory and a study by Ishida Mosaku about the widespread use of Horyuji's temple plan and tiles. A series of helpful maps, tables, black-and-white photographs, and a chronological chart are included. Unfortunately, the figures' numbers are not indicated in the text...

... collected and retold thirteen jataka tales, including the two that are illustrated on the tamamushi no zushi of Horyuji. Kamens notes that the subjects Tamenori chose were "ones known to have been painted, sculpted, or otherwise portrayed elsewhere" (though chiefly on the continent) (p. 57). One truly longs...

..., silver, copper, ivory, and glass objects; and textiles, this last by an important group of fragments, three formerly preserved in the Shosoin, four others from the Horyuji. The descriptions seem generally complete and accurate. A minor defect, both here and in the bibliography, is that while diacritical...

... is the possible value to a neophyte of a recitation of a litany of Japanese names for clothing and food: hakama, mompe, kasutera, puriin, shiikuriimu? Does confronting viewers with such appellations as Kudara Kannon, Chuguji, Horyuji, or Enjoji really encourage them to watch these tapes? Clearly, one...

... edition.1 province of Yamato, (2-3) then estates situated It is possible that this publication will reopen in different provinces pertaining to the Daianji discussions about some of the assertions of the (m. 76) and Horyuji (n. 77) two other Tem- author, just as happened after the republication ples...

... Kongorikishi; MICHAEL SULLIVAN, Harvard University: Conflicting Trends in Contemporary Chinese Art; JANE GASTON-MAHLER, Columbia University: An Indian Motif in T'ang Secular Art; ALEXANDER SOPER, Bryn Mawr College: The Seventh Century Rebuilding of Horyuji; H. C. WENG, China Film Enterprises of America, Inc...

... bodhisattva alone in claiming this lineage. There are in Japan, for example, six wooden images of Avalokitesvara, the so-called "Six Kannon," preserved in Horyuji that are stylistically similar to the Sonsan piece and may be understood as having benefited from the same artistic legacy from Paekche...

...-Verlag, 1950. 23 plates (col.) Text (unpaged) TOKYO. INSTITUTE OP ART RESEARCH. Study on the designs found on the building and wall paintings of the main hall, Horyuji Monastery. Ornamental paintings in PRIEST, ALAN. Korin and the iris screens. the main hall of the Horyuji Monastery, N. Y. Metropolitan...