Asahi Shimbun
KAZUTO TSUKAMOTO
12 July 2014

A Miroku-bosatsu Buddhist statue is surrounded by toy deer in the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art in Nara. (Kazuto Tsukamoto)
NARA–A Japanese artist and his South Korean counterpart have joined forces to show how Buddhist culture was brought to Japan through the Korean Peninsula with a special exhibition featuring “Miroku-bosatsu” Buddhist statues.
The work of 53-year-old sculptor Takashi Kikuchi and artist Park Dong-ki, 47, is currently on display at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
Kikuchi has held exhibitions of contemporary art and photos in Japan and South Korea after forming a group of artists from the two countries called “Forest-Beyond.”
Kikuchi carved three 1.3-meter-tall styrene figures and covered them with red, yellow and orange wool. Continue reading