Injo - Injo

Japanese: 院助 - いんじょ

Year of death: Tennin 1.12.12 (1109.1.14)
Year of birth: Unknown. A Buddhist sculptor of the In school in the late Heian period. Said to be the son of either Kakusuke or Nagase. Later, he split off from Jocho's Shichijo Buddhist Temple and established Shichijo Omiya Buddhist Temple (the beginning of the In school. It was so named because the Buddhist sculptor's name began with the character "in"). In 1077, he was involved in the creation of a Buddha statue for the Golden Hall of Hossho-ji Temple, which was the temple of Emperor Shirakawa, and became a Hokkyo along with Kanekei for the merit of creating the 18-foot-tall statue of Itoku Myoo in the Yakushido Hall of Hossho-ji Temple. In 1105, he also worked with Ensei to create various statues for the court noble palace to help Emperor Horikawa recover from his illness, and in the same year, he was promoted to the rank of Hokan for his merit in creating a Buddha statue for the New Hall of Sonsho-ji Temple. There are many documented records of his work, including the creation of a Shaka Triad in 1107 and an Amida Triad for a memorial service for Emperor Horikawa in 1108, but no known surviving works remain.

(Kazuharu Asai)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：天仁1.12.12(1109.1.14)
生年：生年不詳
平安後期の院派系仏師。覚助の子または長勢の子とも伝えられる。のちに定朝の七条仏所より分かれて七条大宮仏所を興す(院派の始まり。仏師の名が院の字で始まるのでこう呼ばれた)。承暦1(1077)年に白河天皇の御願寺である法勝寺金堂の造仏に携わり,法勝寺薬師堂の丈六大威徳明王像の造仏の功で兼慶と共に法橋となる。また長治2(1105)年には,円勢と協力して堀河天皇の病気平癒のため公家御所の諸像を造立し,同年尊勝寺新堂の造仏の功績により法眼に上った。嘉承2(1107)年釈迦三尊像を制作,天仁1(1108)年には堀河天皇の法事のため阿弥陀三尊像を造立するなど,文献に多くの事跡が遺るが,現存する作品は知られていない。

(浅井和春)

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