Jōchō

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At a glance

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Figure

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

3

Influence

5

Resistance

3

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What Wikipedia says

Jōchō (定朝; died 1057 AD), also known as Jōchō Busshi, was a Japanese sculptor of the Heian period. He popularized the yosegi technique of sculpting a single figure out of many pieces of wood, and he redefined the canon of body proportions used to create Buddhist imagery.

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Image: Jhocho, the master sculptor, book:FUKUYAMA TUNEO and MORI TORU, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.