The small bronze Buddha statue (Pl. IV-a) in the collection of the late Mr. MASAKI Naohiko, former Director of the Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo University of Arts), is the only standing figure antedating the one in the collection of the Matsumoto Chōko-kan Museum, Kyoto, which is believed to be a Chinese work in the fifth century. Because the Masaki Collection statue shows a style and technique in common with the bronze seated statue (Fig. 1) in the Architecture Department of the Tokyo University, it represents a style older than that of the Chōko-kan Collection specimen, and can be dated in about 400 A. D. The small bronze Bodhisattva statue (Pl. IV-b) in the collection of Mr. TAZAWA Yutaka is a replica of the standing Bodhisattva statue in the Fujii Yūrin-kan Museum, Kyoto. The curves shown by its side view are similar to those of the standing Bodhisattva statue in the Choko-kan. Both of them must be from the first half of the fifth century. Another small Buddha statue in the Tazawa Collection (Pl. V has a date of 478 (Fig. 2). This seated figure in Dharma-mudra represents the standard form of Buddha images in the earliest age of Chinese Buddhism. A bronze statue in the C. T. Loo Collection dated 338, another bronze statue dated 429 introduced in the Bukkyō Geijutsu, No. 21, and two bronze statues dated 437 and 451 respectively, show the same simple style as typified by the Tazawa Collection piece excepting in their haloes and pedestals. The statues dated 338 and 429, with their pedestals ornamented with figures of lions, are regarded to be from northern China, while those dated 437 and 451, according to inscriptions on them, are works in southern China. The statue dated 478 in the Tazawa Collection is of a later period, and the statues 482 (Fig. 3) and 501 (Fig. 4) are variations of the Tazawa Collection work.
