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Among its treasures is an image of copper and gold which was cast by the Korean artist, Tori commonly called Tori Busshi, or Tori the image-maker to order of Shotoku; and there is mural decoration from the brush of a Korean priest, Doncho.
The wonder of the I creation is not in the tiger frown, nor in the violence of the terrific mouth, nor in the fury and ghastly colour of the head as a whole: it is in the eyes eyes of nightmare. Now this weird old temple has its legend. Seven hundred years ago, 'tis said, there died the great image-maker, the great busshi; Unke-Sosei.
Jocho, possibly the greatest of the workers in this medium, followed Chinese models, and carved a famous Buddha for Michinaga's temple of Hosho-ji . Jocho's descendant Unkei was the ancestor of many busshi or sculptors of Buddhist statues; and Kwaikei, a pupil of Unkei's brother Jokaku, is supposed to have collaborated with Unkei on the great gate-guardians of the Todai-ji temple.
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