In Japan Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Art
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Before the re- moval of some of its sculptures to the Nara Museum, it was one of the most wonderful treasure-houses of Buddhist statuary in Japan ; and NARA 155 the specimens which remain, in a great hall furnished with glass cases, are among the master- pieces of this art. In the Kondo, on the vast central platform, a gigantic figure of a seated Buddha, in gilded wood, is accompanied by the two customary statues of colossal Bosatsous, standing in the act of benediction. In the four corners are... the Shi-Tenno, the four gods of heaven who protect the earth from the attacks of demons. These, in their splendid armour, brandishing sword or lance in attitudes of calm and august power, with tranquil looks, trampling underfoot the mal- evolent gnome, are magnificent types of Strength, the buckler of virtue and conqueror of evil. It was an admirable theme to offer to the sculptor. For several centuries they sought to realise the ideal beauty of these four types in innumerable statues, giving them an expression of pitiless rigour, of inexorable severity towards evil, and of a noble and austere justice — gentle to the good, terrible to the wicked.
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Before the re- moval of some of its sculptures to the Nara Museum, it was one of the most wonderful treasure-houses of Buddhist statuary in Japan ; and NARA 155 the specimens which remain, in a great hall furnished with glass cases, are among the master- pieces of this art. In the Kondo, on the vast central platform, a gigantic figure of a seated Buddha, in gilded wood, is accompanied by the two customary statues of colossal Bosatsous, standing in the act of benediction. In the four corners are... the Shi-Tenno, the four gods of heaven who protect the earth from the attacks of demons. These, in their splendid armour, brandishing sword or lance in attitudes of calm and august power, with tranquil looks, trampling underfoot the mal- evolent gnome, are magnificent types of Strength, the buckler of virtue and conqueror of evil. It was an admirable theme to offer to the sculptor. For several centuries they sought to realise the ideal beauty of these four types in innumerable statues, giving them an expression of pitiless rigour, of inexorable severity towards evil, and of a noble and austere justice — gentle to the good, terrible to the wicked.
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