Word: shotoku
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...head of the department of Asian art at the Sackler Museum. The Japanese items include three superb examples of early Buddhist sculpture. “Each one of these sculptures is of national treasure quality,” Mowry said. The highlight, however, is a sculpture of Prince Shotoku, dated to 1292, which Mowry described as “magnificent,” and “the single most important [Japanese] sculpture anywhere in the West.” The sculpture was originally bought in Japan in 1936 by the grandfather of Walter C. Sedgwick...