Artworks

Taishakuten

Artwork · Anonymous · second half of the 8th century · statue · Tōdai-ji Temple

Taishakuten — the Indian god Indra — from the dry-lacquer pair of Bonten and Taishakuten on the altar of the Hokkedō, both about four metres tall; quiet, over-life-size figures with arms gracefully extended, probably from the official workshop. 1 Mason 2005, p. 93, fig. 116. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.