2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on Buddhist sculptures in the early Heian period from the point of view of the development of syncretization of Shintoism with Buddhism

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26370149
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Fine art history
Research Institution	Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Principal Investigator	SARAI Mai 独立行政法人国立文化財機構東京文化財研究所, 文化財情報資料部, 主任研究員 (80392546)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords	神仏習合 / 神像
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In this project, both philological investigations and field works on the early Shinto and Buddhist syncretism have been done in Fukui and Oita prefecture. Other than that, to understand principle of syncretism I surveyed several Buddhist caves in Sichuan region of China.
Free Research Field	日本美術史