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context: sculpture > buddhist sculpture
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a guardian figure from the 8th Century |
Nara period
The balance of influences shifts some from Korea to China around this time, and we start to see figures genuinely conceived in the round, and poses that are less stiff and square, as seen here and on the Buddhist painting page above this.