Cloud board (version) - Unban

Japanese: 雲板（版） - うんばん

…They are mainly used as ritual implements in Buddhist temples. There are three types according to material and shape: cloud boards (unban), wooden boards (motsuban), and fish boards (gyoban). Cloud boards are made of bronze or iron and have a flat cloud shape. They are also written as cloud boards, and are called fire boards, large boards, long boards, prayer boards, and board bells. …

From [Buddhist Art]

...Buddhism was founded in the 5th century BC by the Indian Buddha, Shakyamuni, and one branch spread across the South Seas to Southeast Asia, while the other branch reached Japan via Central Asia, China, and Korea. As it spread over a long period of time to a vast area of Asia, the Buddhist art that developed there is extremely diverse, and the changes it has undergone are dazzling. Since Buddhism originally developed with Shakyamuni as its starting point, it has developed organically. Since ancient times, the Three Treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha have been the basic system of Buddhism, and Buddhist art, which has an expansive reach that transcends time and space, can also be understood in a unified way if we consider this as an axis. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "cloud board (version)" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…おもに仏教寺院の法具として用いる。材質，形状に従って，雲板（うんばん），木板（もつばん），魚板（ぎよばん）の3種がある。雲板は青銅または鉄製で平板状雲形をなし，雲版とも書き，火版，大版，長板，斎板，板鐘などともいう。…

【仏教美術】より

…仏教はインドの釈迦によって紀元前5世紀に開かれ，一は南海をへて東南アジアに伝わり，他は中央アジアから中国，朝鮮をへて日本に達する。長い歳月をかけてアジアの広大な地域に伝播しただけに，そこに展開する仏教美術は多彩をきわめ，その変化の諸相に幻惑されるほどである。仏教は本来釈迦を起点として展開するものだけに，それ自体有機的な発展をとげたものである。古来〈仏〉〈法〉〈僧〉の三宝（さんぼう）は仏教の基本大系であり，時･空間を超えた広がりをもつ仏教美術もまた，これを軸として考えると，統一的にとらえることができるだろう。…

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