Unkei’s Fudo Myo-o (運慶の不動明王)

Sculpted in 1186 while the Kei school was bidding on the commission for replacing the statuary at the Todaiji in Nara, these relatively early works of Unkei are located at the Ganjojuin in the Shizuoka Prefecture. Fudo and his two boy attendants, Seitaka Doji (with the fierce expression) and Kongara Doji (with the innocent expression) were carved at a time when Unkei was receiving commissions to produce statuary for warring samurai classes in Eastern Japan. Some scholars believe that these smaller