"Unkou Cave" - ​​Unkou Cave

...In the Meiji and Taisho periods, Matsumoto Bunzaburo, Kinoshita Mokutaro, Omura Seigai, and Ono Genmyo also conducted research and investigations, but Sekino Tadashi and Tokiwa Daijo's Chinese Buddhist Historical Sites, Volume 2 (1926) marked a breakthrough in previous research, and the cave numbers are still used today. Later, the Institute of Oriental Culture (the predecessor to the Eastern Department of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University) led a large-scale investigation by Mizuno Seiichi from 1938 to 1944, including measurements, photography, rubbings, and small-scale excavations, and published the 16 volumes of the Yun'gang Caves (1951-56). After liberation, China has been carrying out repair work since 1955, and has established the Shanxi Yun'gang Caves Cultural Relics Storage Center to investigate, excavate, and protect the caves. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Yungang Caves" is listed below.

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…明治･大正期に松本文三郎，木下杢太郎，大村西崖，小野玄妙も調査や研究を加えたが，関野貞（せきのただし）･常盤大定（ときわだいじよう）《支那仏教史蹟》巻2(1926)は従来の研究に画期を与え，その石窟番号は現在まで使われている。のち東方文化学院(京都大学人文科学研究所東方部の前身)は水野清一を隊長として38‐44年に実測･撮影･拓本･小発掘による大規模な調査をおこない，《雲岡石窟》16巻(1951‐56)を公刊。解放後の中国は55年以来補修工事を成就し，山西雲岡石窟文物保管所をおき，調査発掘や石窟防護にあたっている。…

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