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A school of Buddhist sculptors *bussho §, 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 Pc (1197-1258) and his son Zenshun Pt (dates unknown). Much of their work was related to Nara's Saidaiji Όε, where the Zenpa had close links with the priest Eizon bΈ (1201- 90) who issued many commissions. Good examples are the painted wooden Aizen Myouou zazou €υΎ€Ώ (1247) by Zen'en, the Shaka Nyorai ryuuzou ίή@§ (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 ch. Although Zenpa artists were apprenticed according to the traditional workshop system, and the senior position *daibusshi ε§t, 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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