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context: sculpture
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a guardian figure by Unkei |
Unkei School
Joan Stanley-Baker says that the "Early works of the Unkei school are the last highpoint in Japanese sculptural history." She's wrong, but there's probably only one exception (Enku) between this and the Twentieth Century. Besides questions of quality, it's worth noting that we have here the beginnings of portrait sculpture, around the same time that Zen painters were launching the genre within their form.