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*''Born: [[1044]]''
*''Died: [[1119]]''
Raijô was a sculptor of Buddhist images to whom the [[Kei school]] of sculptors traced its roots.
A disciple of a disciple of [[Jocho|Jôchô]]<ref>Mason, Penelope. ''History of Japanese Art''. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. p188.</ref>, Raijô came to Nara from Kyoto in [[1096]] to help repair and replace sculptures at the [[Kofukuji|Kôfukuji]] damaged or destroyed in a fire. Afterward, he and members of his studio remained in Nara rather than return to Kyoto.
The connections between Raijô and [[Kokei|Kôkei]], founder of the Kei school, who was active roughly a century later, are unclear, but the school nevertheless claimed him (i.e. his style) as strongly connected to, or of great importance to, their origin.
==References==
*Morse, Samuel C. "Revealing the Unseen: The Master Sculptor Unkei and the Meaning of Dedicatory Objects in Kamakura-Period Sculpture." ''Impressions'' 31 (2010). p26.
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*''Died: [[1119]]''
Raijô was a sculptor of Buddhist images to whom the [[Kei school]] of sculptors traced its roots.
A disciple of a disciple of [[Jocho|Jôchô]]<ref>Mason, Penelope. ''History of Japanese Art''. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. p188.</ref>, Raijô came to Nara from Kyoto in [[1096]] to help repair and replace sculptures at the [[Kofukuji|Kôfukuji]] damaged or destroyed in a fire. Afterward, he and members of his studio remained in Nara rather than return to Kyoto.
The connections between Raijô and [[Kokei|Kôkei]], founder of the Kei school, who was active roughly a century later, are unclear, but the school nevertheless claimed him (i.e. his style) as strongly connected to, or of great importance to, their origin.
==References==
*Morse, Samuel C. "Revealing the Unseen: The Master Sculptor Unkei and the Meaning of Dedicatory Objects in Kamakura-Period Sculpture." ''Impressions'' 31 (2010). p26.
<references/>
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
