- Kuratsukuri-be no
Obito Tori
Busshi (司馬鞍作部首止利仏師);
Busshi is a
title meaning "the
maker of
Buddhist images". By the
early 7th century, Tori
Busshi had
become the favorite...
- of mastery: sō-
busshi (惣仏師, master) dai-
busshi (大仏師, major), gon-
busshi (権仏師, ****istant), tō-
busshi (頭仏師, supervisor), and shō-
busshi (小仏師, apprentice)...
-
Shonen Note: Boy Soprano;
volume one will be
published during Fall 2022.
Busshi no Busshin:
Kamakura Hanbun Busshiroku (ぶっしのぶっしん 鎌倉半分仏師録) is a historical...
- of his
firstborn Prince Koretada, Kōshō, was the
ancestor of a line of
busshi, from
which various styles of
Buddhist sculpture emerged. Kōshō's grandson...
-
Kaikei (快慶) was a ****anese
Busshi (sculptor of
Buddha statue) of
Kamakura period,
known alongside Unkei.
Because many
busshi of the
school have a name...
-
While frontality is a
prominent characteristic of the
Shaka Triad by Tori
Busshi, this
statue intends to be seen
rather from a side. Most
parts of it are...
- the
works of
Heian period sculptor Jōchō.
During this period,
outstanding busshi (sculptors of
Buddhist statues)
appeared one
after another in the Kei school...
- Kōkei (康慶,
active 1175–1200) was a ****anese
sculptor of the
Kamakura period. He
headed the Kei
school during the
reconstructions of Tōdai-ji and Kō****u-ji...
- Jōchō (定朝; died 1057 AD), also
known as Jōchō
Busshi, was a ****anese
sculptor of the
Heian period. He po****rized the
yosegi technique of
sculpting a single...
-
later period. His
achievement dramatically raised the
social status of
busshi (Buddhist sculptor) in ****an. In the
Kamakura period, the
Minamoto clan...
