Fudō Myōō - 不動明王 (Japanology excerpt)

Excerpt borrowed from the NHK series "Japanology." This episode focused on Japanese Buddhist sculptures, and offered a revealing & intimate look at the processes involved behind producing a large sitting Fudō Myōō (不動明王), using a form of the ancient complex sculpting-assemblage technique called yosegi zukuri (寄木造). The head sculptor is Matsumoto Myokei (松本明慶), the only modern and active daibusshi (great buddhist sculptor) from the Kei school (慶派) which can be traced back to the founding of the great Kamakura period in Japanese art.

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• myo
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• Myōō
• myou
• 不動明王
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• 仏像
• japan
• 日本
• japanology
• busshi
• 仏師
• daibusshi
• 大仏師
• yosegi
• zukuri
• 寄木造
• wood
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• sculpture
• statue
• Kei
• Ha
• 慶派
• Matsumoto
• Myokei
• 松本明慶

[ginabanadab]

great!

[Equalspaceful]

そういえば仏堂で忍者のような格好をしている夢をみた。

しかも夢か現実かわからない。むかしからからくりがすきです。

人の求めるところはこんなところだとおもう。

[neuroglejak]

awsome

[marcellohermont]

amazing work!