Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues, Halos and Repoussé Buddhist Images

Bodhisattva with One Leg Pendent; Asuka period, 7th century (Important Cultural Property)

The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures Room 2
April 22, 2025 (Tue) - April 19, 2026 (Sun)

All of the 48 works of gilt bronze Buddhist statues in the Hōryūji Treasures are no more then 30–40 cm in height, and many of them are believed to have been used for private worship by local rulers. The halos date from around the same time as these gilt bronze statues, but they are displayed separately.

Repoussé Buddhist images could be mass-produced by placing a thin sheet of bronze over a relief image of a Buddhist divinity and hammering it into shape. In Japan, repoussé images flourished from the second half of the 7th to the early 8th century and were mostly hung on the walls of temple halls or kept in small shrines for private worship. The repoussé Buddhist images among the Hōryūji Treasures are a very important collection, not only in terms of age and number, but also for the variety of images.

Major Work(s) on Exhibit 7 results

	Designation	Name	Creation/ Excavation/ Provenance	Period	Acquisition/ Ownership/ Accession Number	CMT
	Important Cultural Property	Standing Bodhisattva Kannon		Asuka period, 651	N-165	On display from July 15th (Tue)
	Important Cultural Property	Standing Buddha and Two Attendants		Three Kingdoms period, 6th-7th century, Korea	N-143
	Important Cultural Property	Seated Buddha		Asuka period, 7th century	N-145
Highlight	Important Cultural Property	Bodhisattva with One Leg Pendent		Asuka period, 7th century	N-155
	Important Cultural Property	Bodhisattva Seated with One Leg Pendent		Asuka period, 7th century	N-159
Highlight	Important Cultural Property	Queen Maya and Heavenly Beings		Asuka period, 7th century	N-191
Highlight	Important Cultural Property	The Buddha Amida Triad and Two Priests		Asuka period, 7th century	N-198

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