Incho - Incho

Japanese: 院朝 - いんちょう

Years of birth: Unknown. A Buddhist sculptor of the In school in the late Heian period. Said to be the son of Insuke. The Choshu-ki records that in 1134, in the presence of Inkaku, he measured the dimensions of the 18-foot Buddha in the Kokutsune Ason Hall in the Western Temple, famous for being made by Jocho, and used this as a reference for the construction of a new Buddha. In 1139, he was handed down the Hokkyo title by Inkaku after the Buddha statue in the tower of Hokongo-in was made. It is said that he made the half-foot-18-foot Amida Triad at the Shirakawa Imperial Palace in 1142, the life-size Seio statue by Fujiwara no Yorinaga the following year, and the 18-foot-18-foot Amida statue at Saishokongo-in in 1155, but no surviving works are known. He was appointed Hokan between 1142 and 1143, and Hoin by 1161. He was one of the leading In-pa Buddhist sculptors of his time, on a par with Inkaku and Inson, and was considered the founder of the Rokujo Manri-koji Buddhist Temple in later generations. <References> Masumi Shimizu, "Incho the Buddhist sculptor and Yoshinaka Manor: Buddhist sculptor's manorial position and the genealogy of In-pa Buddhist sculptors" (Research on the History of Medieval Sculpture)

(Kazuharu Asai)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
平安後期の院派系仏師。院助の子と伝えられる。『長秋記』には長承3(1134)年院覚の立ち会いのもと,定朝作として名高い西院・故邦恒朝臣堂の丈六仏の寸法を測り,新仏造立の参考にしたと記される。保延5(1139)年法金剛院の塔の造仏により院覚から法橋位を譲られた。康治1(1142)年の白河御所の半丈六阿弥陀三尊像,翌2年の藤原頼長による等身尊星王像,久寿2(1155)年の最勝金剛院・丈六阿弥陀像造立のことが伝えられるが,現存作品は知られていない。康治1年から久寿2年の間に法眼に,また永暦2(1161)年までに法印に叙せられた。院覚や院尊と並ぶ当代一流の院派系仏師で,後世,六条万里小路仏所の祖とされた。<参考文献>清水真澄「仏師院朝と吉中荘―仏師の荘官職と院派仏師の系譜―」(『中世彫刻史の研究』)

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