Inson - Inson

Japanese: 院尊 - いんそん

Year of death: Kenkyu 9.10.29 (1198.11.29)
Year of birth: Security 1 (1120)
A Buddhist sculptor active in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. Son of In Kaku. His name first appears in records in 1149, when he created the half-height, six-foot-tall Dainichi Nyorai statue and the six-foot-tall Amida Nyorai statue for the West Hall of Seiraku-in Temple in Uji. In 1154, he became a hokyo for his work creating Buddha statues at Kongoshin-in Temple in Toba. He had already been promoted to the rank of hoin when he created the three-foot-seven-foot Buddha statue of Yakushi for a prayer for the birth of Kenreimon-in in 1178, and seems to have been a central figure in the In school of Buddhist sculptors, wielding great influence in the world of Buddhist statue creation at the time. In 1174, after the Todai-ji and Kofuku-ji temples sustained heavy damage from fires caused by Taira no Shigehira's war, he participated in the reconstruction of these temples together with sculptors of the En and Kei schools, and played an important role in creating the halo of the Great Buddha of Todai-ji Temple, but no confirmed surviving works by him are known. <References> Kobayashi Tsuyoshi, "Study of Japanese Sculptors," Shimizu Masumi, "Bushiin Sonron" (Seijo Junior College Bulletin, No. 19)

(Kazuharu Asai)

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Japanese:

没年：建久9.10.29(1198.11.29)
生年：保安1(1120)
平安末・鎌倉初期に活躍した仏師。院覚の子。久安5(1149)年宇治・成楽院西御堂の半丈六大日如来像と丈六阿弥陀如来像の造立で,記録に初めてその名がみえる。久寿1(1154)年には,鳥羽・金剛心院の造仏の功で法橋となる。治承2(1178)年建礼門院の御産祈のため三尺七仏薬師を造立した際すでに法印位に上っており,院派系仏師の中心人物として当時の造仏界で勢力を誇っていたようだ。同4年の平重衡の兵火で大きな被害を蒙った東大寺や興福寺の復興造営に,円派・慶派の仏師たちと共に加わっており,東大寺大仏の光背を造るなど重要な役割を果たしたが,確定できる彼の現存作品は知られていない。<参考文献>小林剛『日本彫刻作家研究』,清水真澄「仏師院尊論」(『成城短期大学紀要』19号)

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