may 19, 743 - Todai-ji

Description:

rebuilt 1700
Bronze and wood, ceramic roofing
Various artists including Unkei and Keikei and Kei School
Nara, Japan
buddhism spread via silk route, and open practice in japan was a symbol of the openess of japan to foreign ideas/goods
**kei school of sculpture= the peak of japanese sculpture
** unkei = leading figure (elaborate, shows movement, musculature, contrapposto)