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Featuring the renowned seventh-century gilt-bronze kyamuni (Shaka) triad at the H ry ji, Constructing the Dharma King reveals how the impression of a Buddhist image evolved in Yamato, Japan, from the indistinct sense of divine otherness at the early stage of the transmission to more concrete ideals and values concerning families, authority, and kingship. According to the accompanying inscription, the Kashiwade, a low-ranking bureaucratic clan, commissioned the triad to commemorate the deaths of its family members. Considering the triad as an endpoint of a dynamic political re-envisioning spearheaded by Soga no Umako (d. 626) and the members of the Yamato sovereignty, Akiko Walley argues that the Kashiwade constructed the Shaka triad not simply as a private act of devotion, but a pivotal political act that demonstrated their allegiance and loyalty. This publication contends that the appearance of the Shaka triad was chosen to echo the new vision of a Dharma King that was manifested in Prince Umayato as the political persona orchestrated by Umako, and in the preceding Shaka triad statue at Asukadera produced by Umako and his closest allies. In the course of discussion, this book also reexamines the key points of debate surrounding this statue, including the reliability of the accompanying inscription, identity of its makers, and the statue s ties to the sculptural trends on the Asian continent.

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Buddhist temples --- Hōryūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan). --- J1800.10 --- J1810.46 --- J1895 --- J6561 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kodai, prehistoric and ancient, premodern --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- temples and monasteries, pilgrimage -- Nara prefecture (Yamato) --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- art --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture -- religious buildings --- Hōryūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan) --- Ikaruga-chō (Nara-ken, Japan). --- Hōryū Gakumonji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan) --- 斑鳩寺 --- 法隆寺 --- 法隆寺 (斑鳩町奈良県, Japan) --- 法隆寺 (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan) --- 法隆寺Hōryūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan)