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Busshi

A Busshi (仏師) is a Japanese sculptor specializing in Buddha statues. Chōkai (ja) Chōsei (ja) Eikai (ja) Enkū Ensei (ja) Genkei (ja) Gyōkai (ja) Higo Bettō Jōkei (ja) Inchō (ja) Injo (ja) Inkaku (ja) Inkichi (ja) Inson (ja) Jōchō Jōkaku (ja) Jōkei Kaikei Kakuen (ja) Kakujo (ja) Kōben (ja) Kōkei Kōchō (ja) Kōjo (ja) Kochi no Obinari (ja) Kōshō (ja) Kōshō (ja) Kōun (ja) Kuninaka no Kimimaro (ja) Matsumoto Myōkei (ja) Myōen (ja) Raijo (ja) Seichō (ja) Tankei Tori Busshi Unga (ja) Unjo (ja) Unkei Yamaguchi no Ō

Jōchō

Jōchō (定朝; died 1057 AD), also known as Jōchō Busshi, was a Japanese sculptor of the Heian period. He popularized the yosegi technique of sculpting a single figure out of many pieces of wood, and he redefined the canon of body proportions used to create Buddhist imagery. His style spread across Japan and defined Japanese sculpture for the next 150 years. Today, art historians cite Jōchō as "the first of a new kind of master sculptor" and "one of the most innovative artists Japan has ever produced.

Kōkei (sculptor)

Kōkei (康慶, active 1175–1200) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kamakura period. He headed the Kei school during the reconstructions of Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji. Although his works are still largely in the style established by Jōchō in the Heian period, Kōkei's sculpture show a move toward the greater realism that characterizes the works of his disciples Unkei, Kaikei, and Jōkei. Kōkei was a direct descendant, both genetically and artistically, of Jōchō, a master sculptor of the Heian period.

Tankei

Tankei (湛慶 1173 – June 13, 1256) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and eldest son of the master sculptor Unkei. Statue of Sahasrabhuja-arya-avalokiteśvara in the temple known as Sanjusangen-dō in Kyoto. The statue of Ugyō, one of the Niō guardians at the Nandaimon in front of the temple Tōdai-ji in Nara, with Jōkaku and 12 assistant sculptors.

Unkei

Unkei (運慶; 1150 – 1223) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He specialized in statues of the Buddha and other important Buddhist figures. Unkei's early works are fairly traditional, similar in style to pieces by his father, Kōkei. However, the sculptures he produced for the Tōdai-ji in Nara show a flair for realism different from anything Japan had seen before. Today, Unkei is the best known of the Kei artists, and many art historians consider him its "most distinguished member".

Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process.