of mastery: sō-busshi (惣仏師, master) dai-busshi (大仏師, major), gon-busshi (権仏師, assistant), tō-busshi (頭仏師, supervisor), and shō-busshi (小仏師, apprentice)...

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...

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...

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...

mythos, such as the GINN and ZAKU Warrior from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, the Busshi from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, and the Jenice from After War Gundam X. After...

While frontality is a prominent characteristic of the Shaka Triad by Tori Busshi, the Kudara Kannon is intended to be viewed at an angle. It is mostly made...

later period. His achievement dramatically raised the social status of busshi (Buddhist sculptor) in Japan. In the Kamakura period, the Minamoto clan...

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...

the works of Heian period sculptor Jōchō. During this period, outstanding busshi (sculptors of Buddhist statues) appeared one after another in the Kei school...

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...

Kamakura-bori is a technique invented by Kōun (康運) or Kōen (康円), who were busshi (sculptors of Buddhist statues), in order to mass-produce Buddhist altar...

Kaikei (快慶) was a Japanese Busshi (sculptor of Buddha statue) of Kamakura period, known alongside Unkei. Because many busshi of the school have a name...

A famous Japanese wooden kongorikishi statue of Tōdai-ji, Nara. It was made by Busshi Unkei in 1203....

later period. His achievement dramatically raised the social status of busshi (Buddhist sculptor) in Japan. In the Kamakura period, the Minamoto clan...

defeat the Tuyuhun, and prevent further incursions into Gansu (China). Tori Busshi makes "Shaka Triad", in the kon-dō of Hōryū-ji, during the Asuka period...

Kōen (Japanese: 康円; c. 1207 – 1285) was a Japanese Buddhist sculptor (busshi) of the Kei school in Nara during the Kamakura period. A grandson of the sculptor...

protection. During this period, Buddhist art was dominated by the style of Tori Busshi, who came from a Korean immigrant family. Painting on silk of the semi-legendary...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

Japan (temples) Siege of Nara Boston Miroku - oldest sculpture made by the Busshi Kaikei, part of the temple's collection until 1906. Burke Jizō - sculpture...

Itako Anna Calls a Busshi" (イタコのアンナ仏師を呼ぶ, "Itako no Anna Busshi o yobu") "The Busshi with Many Wounds" (傷だらけの仏師, "Kizu darake no Busshi") "Decisive Fight...

later period. His achievement dramatically raised the social status of busshi (Buddhist sculptor) in Japan. In the Kamakura period, the Minamoto clan...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

(Temple Patronage) Important Figures Historical Figures Prince Shōtoku Tori Busshi Rōben Saichō (Tendai founder) Kūkai (Shingon founder) Hōnen (Jōdo-shū founder)...

to contemporaneous art in China and Korea. One example of this is Tori Busshi's Shaka Triad which reflects the style of early to mid-sixth-century Chinese...

(K)night (2023) Sin and Evil (2024), Shimizu Seaside Serendipity (2025) Busshi (2026), Kazunari Kondo Yae's Sakura (2013), Hijikata Toshizō Silver and...