This is the first “Yurei Zu” (ghost painting) in Japan confirmed to be an original ... donated it to Kudoji temple in 1784.” The committee confirmed the background information by studying ...

But the temple sold the artworks after it fell into a state of disrepair following the “haibutsu kishaku” movement to expel Buddhism from Japan following ... He took up painting and pottery ...

The Chichu Art Museum (2004 ... creating plays of light and shadow just like the Japanese temples of yesteryear. An unexpected intimacy can exist within this 60,000-seat high-tech canopy.