Artworks

Dainichi Nyorai, lecture hall, Tōji

Artwork · Kōri and Kōshō · 1501–1700 · sculpture · Tō-ji Temple

One of the replacements for figures of Tōji’s sculptural mandala lost in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by Kōri and his disciple Kōshō: a facile smoothness of surface and little understanding of anatomy, though it impresses by sheer size and solidity. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 308–309, fig. 357. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.