Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 3-4. (Budapest, 1959)

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are known. 1. Four Tennö, National Treasures, Köfuku-ji, dated 791, and the Twelve Yaksa Generals, National Treasures, Shiga, Köji Yakushi-dö. This means that the practice was already dying out. From the middle and late Fujiwara period (898—1184) only one is listed, the Thousand-armed Kannon, National Treasure, in Körin-ji of Osaka.

4 We can add to this list another statue in the city of Gifu, in the Mie-dera, an Eleven-headed Kannon from the beginning of the Jögan period.

5 In China, the practice of making dried lacquer statues continues during the Sung-period,

6 we know several statues made at this time and also during the reign of the Ming emperors, as an example, our Museum has a Kuan-yin ,,of the Southern Seas". According to Paul Pelliot, this technique was known at least until 1600, and perhaps later too.

7 But altogether such statues are rather rare. The Lohans appeared relatively late in the iconography of the Chinese Buddhism. "Despite the existence of images of 16 Lohans in the north at a relatively early date (740's), the Cult of Lohans, which developed and spread from the south-eastern coastal province of Che-kiang, did not gain momentum, until the end of the ninth century", as we read it in a recently published book of Wen Fong.

8 4 Nihon bijutsu taikei, Chökoku, Tokyo, Seibundô — Shinkosha, 1941, pp. 507 — 538. 5 Nihon kobijutsu annai, Tokyo, Yamato-kai, 1931, p. 495. 6 L. Sickman — A. Soper : op. cit., p. 101, pis. 80 — 2. 7 P. Pelliot : Deux termes techniques de l'art Chinois. T'oung Pao, 1924, pp. 260 — 1. 8 The Lohans and a Bridge to Heaven, Freer Gallery of Art, Occasional Papers, III/l, 1958, p. 43 note 78.