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Clay tableaux in the five-storied pagoda, Hōryūji

Artwork · Anonymous · 711 · sculpture · Hōryū-ji Temple

Four scenes of clay figures set among rock shapes around the central pillar on the ground floor of the Five-storied pagoda, Hōryūji, finished in 711. North: the death of Shaka, his disciples in violent grief, the bodhisattvas calm; east: the debate between the layman Yuima and the bodhisattva Monju; west: the distribution of the relics. 1 Mason 2005, p. 81, fig. 99–100. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.