In ordinary families, the lanterns placed at the door are carved in stone, while those lanterns placed at the door of nobles or shogunate ministers are copper lanterns.

And after more than a hundred years, such lanterns became the favorite of various antique enthusiasts.

Therefore, such lanterns are very common in various antique markets in Japan.

There are many places on the stall in front of me, including all kinds of copper lanterns, of all sizes and hundreds of them, which look particularly popular.

However, the jewelry aura that Jin Muchen noticed did not flash from these copper lanterns.

There are not only hundreds of copper lanterns in this stall, but also many copper ornaments and statues. Most of these statues are shoddy, and they are obviously modern handicrafts or imitations.

Judging from the workmanship, Jin Muchen is almost certain that 90% of these things are handicrafts wholesale from the famous wholesale town in China.

Although it is known as an antique fair, no one can be found in it. Therefore, almost all stalls are placed with many handicrafts to a greater or lesser extent. The only difference is that the handicrafts placed on some stalls are of higher specifications and finer workmanship, which are high-end handicrafts.

Others are shoddy and cheap street stall-level crafts.

Almost most of the ones placed on this stall are cheap and of poor quality crafts.

Most of these copper ornaments are made of figures, and most of them are Buddha statues. The shapes of these Buddha statues are different from those in China. They are almost all the shapes of those Buddha statues in Japanese Buddhist scriptures.

The Buddha statues in China are usually made of Arhats, or Bodhisattvas, or Maitreya Buddhas, and they are almost all made of copper and gilt in China, and few are made of bronze statues directly.

So the difference between these Japanese Buddha statues can be seen almost at a glance.

But what Jin Muchen was concerned about was the two Buddha statues in the pile of Buddha statues on the stall. The shapes of these two Buddha statues were very strange, which was very different from the traditional Japanese bronze Buddha statues.

The Buddha statues worshipped in Japan are basically introduced from China during the Tang Dynasty. The bronze Buddha statues of that era are basically the same as those of the Tang Dynasty. However, later, their own style gradually evolved, and the shapes gradually became different from the Buddha statues in China.

However, these two statues are not much different from the shapes of the Buddha statues in China, but they are not exactly the same. They have other differences from the Buddha statues in Japan, which makes Jin Muchen feel strange.

The jewelry flashing on these two Buddha statues told him that these two Buddha statues were not fakes, but real antiques. This made him even more curious.

Although Jin Muchen doesn't know much about Japanese antiques, he has also studied Buddha statues for a period of time since he created many Buddha statues from the Boston Museum.

When studying Buddha statues, I also learned about Japanese Buddha statues. After all, as for antiques like Buddha statues, there are only a few important branches in Northeast Asia, the most important ones are China, and then Japan. Then there are South Korea, and the shapes of Buddha statues in Japan and South Korea are almost all caused by images of China.

The Buddha statues in Japan have a long history, but it is definitely true that they were all passed down from mainland China. They should have appeared in the sixth century, when Japan was still in the Asuka era.

The shapes of Buddha statues in the Asuka era were almost 100% influenced by Buddha statues in the Northern Wei Dynasty in China. At that time, most of the shapes of Buddha statues in China were ancient and serious, while the shapes of Buddha statues in Japan were mostly like this.

The only difference from the Chinese Buddha statues at that time is that the Buddha statues made in Japan at that time are almost all frontal images with symmetrical left and right.

Later in the late Asuka era, some Japanese Buddha statues began to appear in the shape of treasure crowns or buns. This is asymmetrical side image of the Japanese self-bud statue style.

In the Baifeng era, Japanese Buddha statues were widely seen in the shape of Buddha statues in the Tang Dynasty. The shape of Buddha statues began to smile on the face, and the lines of the clothes on the body were smoother than before. They were no longer as serious as before, and the lines of the clothes on the body were stiff.

When it was the Nara era, because of the prosperity of Japanese Buddhism, in order to expand its influence, Japanese Buddhism began to promote the Mahayana Buddhist concept of saving everyone to become a Buddha, and began to completely develop its own ideology in the shape of Buddha statues. For example, since then, Japanese Buddha statues began to gradually move closer to ordinary people.

Not only the facial shape, but also the clothes on his body gradually began to have a Japanese style. This Buddha statue, which is very close to ordinary people, is even more popular with ordinary believers. Therefore, it was from that time that Japanese Buddhism gradually developed its own Buddha statue shape.

Some Buddhist Buddhas from Japanese factions have even been derived, and such statues of Buddha are basically invisible in China.

These characteristics are the differences between Japanese Buddha statues and ancient Chinese Buddha statues.

However, because of the war, the earliest antique Japanese Buddha statues from the Asuka period and the Baifeng period were preserved to the advanced number. In addition to the several famous temples in Japan, there are also some particularly large Buddha statues that have been preserved to the present, and the small bronze Buddha statues have basically been destroyed by the war later.

However, there are quite a few bronze Buddha statues from the Kamakura era and later Heian era that have been preserved to this day. However, almost most of the bronze Buddha statues from these two eras are purely Japanese-style Buddha statues, which are ordinary human-shaped, and the solemn Buddha statues are rare.

The two Buddha statues in front of you are definitely not typical Japanese Kamakura period, and there are many differences between them in terms of appearance just from the appearance.

These two Buddha statues are one of the bronze Buddha standing statues and the other is the bronze Buddha sitting statues.

The standing image can be about 1.5 meters high, and the shoulder width can be about 30 cm. The face of the Buddha statue is full, the Dharma image is solemn, and there is a bun on the head.

One hand raised slightly, and it was about 45 degrees inclined to the body. The index finger of the hand stretched out and pointed to the sky, and the middle finger was bent, but it did not close together with the palm. It was the famous fearless seal in Buddhism.

The left hand is close to the body forty-five degrees, with the ring finger and little finger head towards the palm, and the index finger and middle finger together, which is the famous and wish seal.

The shape of the Buddha statue is slightly serious. Although there is no big lotus petal-shaped light back on the back, it is still sleek and powerful. She is wearing a coat wrapped in a belt with a bulging collar. The collar is raised and the front pattern of the coat is V-shaped step-shaped, with deep undulations. The hems at both ends of the lower side of the coat are slightly raised to both sides, which has a strong three-dimensional feeling.

No matter how you look at this Buddha statue, it is not an ordinary item, not to mention the various pearls and treasures that keep flashing on this Buddha statue.

The strong green light, although the color is very strong, is not dazzling. It is very consistent with the characteristics of that kind of Buddhist antique and is very soft and comfortable.

Another bronze Buddha sitting statue can be about thirty centimeters high and about fifteen centimeters wide.

Like the one in front, this Buddha statue has no light back at the back, and it also has a bun on its head, but the bun is combed high, and it looks about seven or eight centimeters long. The shape is quite different from the traditional Chinese bronze Buddha statue.

This Buddha statue is like the one in front of it, sitting there with a solemn appearance and a seal with both hands. However, Jin Muchen did not recognize the Buddha seal that was formed this time, so this is not the point.

The point is that the clothes worn on this Buddha statue are very similar to the one in front, but the difference is that the Buddha statue has a string of Buddhist beads on its chest.

Moreover, the clothes on the upper body are not like the one in front of the standing figure, but have a V-shaped collar. This time the Buddha statue has a U-shaped collar, which is slightly different from the one in front of the Buddha statue.

The two Buddha statues were filled with pearls and treasures, and they were all the time. They were mixed with other fake and old bronze statues. If you don’t look carefully, it wouldn’t be so easy to distinguish.

Even if a person who specializes in this thing does not look carefully, it will definitely be difficult to distinguish these two fine products from the imitations on the side.

Although most of the imitations are shoddy guys and the style is exaggerated, they are numerous after all. If you throw these two fine products into the pile of imitations, it is really difficult to distinguish them from other guys if you don’t look for them carefully.

Thanks to Jin Muchen's golden eyes, it would have been not so easy to discover such two unique Buddha statues.

Jin Muchen came to the stall and began to scan it in a pretentious manner. However, the copper lanterns placed on the stall were not the focus of his attention. His focus was all on the two bronze statues.

He had been standing there for half an hour, and Watanabe, who had been standing beside him, was a little impatient to wait. Watanabe likes porcelain and has not studied much about things like bronze.

What's more, except for the copper lanterns, he believed that all the things placed on this stall were imitations and fakes and handicrafts. After all, he had no research on Buddha statues at all.
Chapter completed!