Asura (阿修羅) - Construction and Painting

This fascinating segment is from the seven-part NHK series "The Color of Japan." Here, the color red is created and applied to a modern recreation of the well-known National treasure Asura (阿修羅), from the Kōfuku-ji (興福寺) in Nara, Japan.

Thanks to Okkie2008 for uploading the invaluable entire seven-part series to veoh.com

To view the sculpting and construction techniques for this type of statue, please visit this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-DcSrTYLY0

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• ashura
• 阿修羅
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• Kōfuku-ji
• 興福寺
• kofuku
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• 仏像
• buddhist
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