“I didn’t want the figures to become abandoned.” Many of the statues are modeled after Imperial Japanese Army soldiers and officers with the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Nagoya Third ...

KUMAKOGEN, Ehime Prefecture--Prehistoric people in Japan fashioned human figures from ... the belly and other sections of at least one stone figurine. Experts had strongly suspected that serrated ...

I bought these figurines in Kyoto in a small antique shop outside the Imperial palace. They tells us something about the casting techniques, social structure and dress of the time.

Kyoto has about 2,700 temples where an array of benevolent, meek and ferocious Buddhist statues are worshipped. Sculptors breathe life into these objects of worship.