Colored glass slide photo. From the collection of Japanese images of James A. B. Scherer. He was the president of the Throop College of Technology (former name of the California Institute of ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero ... meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.

Signed, dated and editioned on the front, below the print. Stamped, titled, editioned, negative dated, print dated, and signed on the back of the mounting board.

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...

Kamakura Prefecture: the Great Buddha ('Daibutsu') is one of Japan's most celebrated Buddhist figures. The 40-foot bronze statue, weighing 93 tons, is located in the Kōtoku-in Temple, and was ...

Returning from a Japanese funeral ... s largest bronze statue of Buddha is so huge that the famed Kamakura and Nara Buddha statues seem tiny in comparison! Why is such a marvel located seemingly ...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Asia Society's upcoming Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan exhibition as one of several ways to "travel ... mostly carved in ...

Imura and Morisaki promptly agreed. Naka Ai carves a replacement halo for a Buddha statue. They called their venture Sanjoudou, which in Japanese means "combining the power of three" and based ...

Japan is a destination people love ... Kōtoku-in Temple, located in Kamakura, is home to the famous Kamakura Daibutsu, a ...