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Zenpa@‘P”h
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A school of Buddhist sculptors *bussho •§Š, who often used the character 'Zen' ‘P in their names. The group was active in the early-mid Kamakura period, mainly in the Nara area. Important members of the school were Zen'en ‘P‰~ (dates unknown), Zenkei ‘PŒc (1197-1258) and his son Zenshun ‘Pt (dates unknown). Much of their work was related to Nara's Saidaiji Ό‘εŽ›, where the Zenpa had close links with the priest Eizon ‰b‘Έ (1201- 90) who issued many commissions. Good examples are the painted wooden Aizen Myouou zazou ˆ€υ–Ύ‰€Ώ‘œ (1247) by Zen'en, the Shaka Nyorai ryuuzou Žί‰ή”@—ˆ—§‘œ (1249) by Zenkei, and a portrait statue of Eizon, aged 80 years (1280), by Zenshun. The origins of the Zenpa school are unclear, and there are stylistic differences from Nara's other major sculpture school *Keiha Œc”h. Although Zenpa artists were apprenticed according to the traditional workshop system, and the senior position *daibusshi ‘啧Žt, was passed on by inheritance, artists showed a greater degree of individual stylistic variation than in earlier schools. Zen'en is noted for technical excellence, Zenkei for the sensitivity of his style, and Zenshun, for outstanding realistic portraiture.
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