Artworks

Kannon Bosatsu

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

One of a group of six bodhisattvas at Hōryūji, made in the single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) of camphor wood and covered with lacquer and gold leaf — the jewellery, hair and ornaments modelled in lacquer: the first known use of lacquer in Japanese sculpture other than as a coating. 1 Mason 2005, p. 80, fig. 98. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.