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Japanese Painting and Sculpture in the Kamakura Period
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Nio guardian, Todai-ji complex, Nara
Agyō, one of the two Buddhist Niō guardians at the Nandai-mon in front of the Todai ji in Nara. These are some of the finest wooden sculptures in Japan from the 13th century carved by the Kamakura-era sculptor Unkei in 1203.
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