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Studies of Japanese Art by Period
Asuka and Hakuho (552-710)
The best introduction is a handsome exhibition catalogue by Bunsaku Kurata, Horyu-ji:
Temple of the Exalted Law, translated by W. Chie Ishibashi (New York:
Japan Society, 1981), but also useful (and well illustrated) are Seiichi Mizuno,
Asuka Buddhist Art: Horyu-ji, translated by Richard L. Gage (New York: Weatherhill,
1974), and Kakichi Suzuki, Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan, translated
and adapted by Mary Neighbor Parent and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (New York: Kodansha
International, 1980). Two 7th-century images have been the subject of detailed studies:
on the image in Chuguji usually identified as Miroku, see Sherwood Moran in Artibus
Asiae 21, no. 3/4 (1958): 179-203; on the date, style, and history of interpretation
of the Yumedono Kannon, see Lucy Weinstein in Archives of Asian Art 42 (1989):
25-48.
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