Ishiiji Temple Triad - Ishiiji Temple Triad

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[Japan]
The Nihon Shoki, in the 13th year of the Bidatsu era (584), records that Kafukami no Omi brought a stone Maitreya Buddha from Baekje, the first recorded instance of this, but no stone Buddha remains from the Asuka period are known. Relics from the Nara period include the Sanzon statue at Sekii-ji Temple in Nara Prefecture (sandstone?, half-carved), the Kohokke Sanzon statue niche in Kasai City, Hyogo Prefecture (tuff, half-carved), the Zutou in Takabatake-cho, Nara City (flower-shaped rock, thin-carved. A dozen stone Buddhas are arranged on all four sides of a square-shaped earthen tower), and the cliff-carved Buddhas at Uchigawa in Nara Prefecture (line carvings).

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Ishiiji Triad is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

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［日本］
　《日本書紀》敏達13年(584)条に鹿深臣が百済から弥勒石仏を将来したとあり，これが記録上の初見であるが，飛鳥時代の石仏の遺品は知られていない。奈良時代の遺品に，奈良県石位寺三尊像(砂岩？，半肉彫)，兵庫県加西市の古法華三尊像龕(凝灰岩，半肉彫)，奈良市高畑町の頭塔（ずとう）(花コウ岩，薄肉彫。方墳状の土塔の四方に十数個の石仏を配する)，奈良県宇智川磨崖仏(線刻)などが知られる。…

※「石位寺三尊像」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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