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.

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 ...

A figurine inspired by a satirical illustration ... The painting is famous among Japanese because it is featured in history textbooks. The man was reproduced with a full-color 3-D printer in ...

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.