@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006633,
 author = {松原, 三郎 and Matsubara, Saburo},
 issue = {275},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {Many small gilt bronze Buddhist images (up to about thirty centimeters in height) remain from the Silla Periods. But no dated example is known and they are all stylized and similar objects perhaps due to mass-production. These conditions make the stylistic study of the small gilt bronze images of Silla difficult.
     Here, in this paper, the author tries to take up the form of pedestal as the key in considering the chronology of the gilt bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva images from Old Silla through Unified Silla. He then classifies the form of pedestal into five types and names them A, B, C, D and E.
     Type A is the earliest and became prevalent around the middle of the seventh century. A small number of this type of image was still made in the early part of the latter half of the century when type B, which developed from type A, appeared. Type B had its culmination in the latter half of the seventh century, although in this stage, that is, the earliest part of Unified Silla, the form of the pedestal becam diversified, leaving some examples which cannot be classified with either type A or type B.
     The most universal type among gilt bronze images of Silla is type C. It seems to have lasted from the end of the seventh century for more than a hundred years. It was popular in the eighth century and may have been in vogue till the beginning of the ninth century. The origin of this type may have some relationship to the pedestal form of gilt images of Paekche of the Three Kingdom Period, but, as far as the inter- relationship between the pedestal types of Silla is concerned, this type should be iuterpreted as
a development from type B.
     The images with these three pedestal types have characteristics peculiar to Silla and, at the same time, they still retain some Chinese influence.
     But the apparent Chinese influence lasted no later than the 770's. Particularly, the pedestal form was modified into a completely local style after that. These are type D and E. The former lasted from the eighth to the ninth century and the latter was prevalent in the ninth century. Both are characterized by their intricate design. The most sophisticated ones are seen among the E type examples and, after the climax of the sophistication, type E began to be simplified and this tendency continued until the end of Silla.
     Thus the vicissitude of the pedestal form is found to be quite important for the chronological study of gilt bronze images of the Silla Periods.},
 pages = {15--31},
 title = {新羅金銅仏年代考―特に如来、菩薩小像の台座形式を中心として―},
 year = {1971}
}