Chapter 865 unwilling

Therefore, although this statue of Tathagata is a remnant, it also has very high artistic value, otherwise it would not be displayed in the Tokyo National Museum.

When Jin Muchen “visited” the Boston Museum of Fine Arts last time, he “collected” a lot of Buddha statues, and there were many treasures from the Tianlong Mountain Buddhist Grottoes.

To be honest, compared to the Buddha statues he ‘collected’ in Boston before, this sitting Buddha statue is really not enough to look at. If this Buddha statue is of complete quality, there is still a fight. Unfortunately, this Buddha statue is already miserable. .

Without the defective parts of the head and right hand, Jin Muchen was a little disdainful, and he didn’t want to take it away.

But considering that this Buddha statue is, after all, this mountain chamber of commerce, the treasure that was kidnapped from China in the past, should not be left alone in Japan because of its incomplete appearance, so he simply wasted a little space and put this statue The Tathagata sits in the bag.

In addition to the three-piece red sandalwood set from the Qing Dynasty Prince Kung’s Mansion that was previously ‘collected’, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce scavenged from China and donated the collection to the Tokyo National Museum, basically even if he recovered all of them.

After collecting the Buddha statue, Jin Muchen couldn’t help but sigh about the fate of the Chamber of Commerce in the mountains.

The bad things that the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce did in China in those days can definitely be said to be unconscionable and indescribable, but their reports in the present world came quickly enough.

{As the saying goes, Xiao He also loses Xiao He, they started with the European and American markets, but they also lost in the European and American markets in the end.

Back then, they made a fortune by looting cultural relics from all over China, and then reselling these cultural relics to Americans and British.

But then after the outbreak of World War II, first as an ally of Germany, they shop in the UK. It was blocked by the British.

After the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States immediately declared war on Japan, and then their three antique stores in New York, Boston and Chicago were quickly seized by the United States government.

Their antiques in those branches were confiscated by Americans. Then in 1944, a public auction to raise money for the war went.

And such a loss brought a fatal blow to the store in the mountains, and quickly caused them to decline.

At that time, they developed by relying on the European and American markets, and as a result, they also quickly disappeared because of the decisions of the European and American governments.

They rely on the support of the Japanese government in East Asia, especially China. Played the role of a rampant hooligan, but internationally, they encountered a big hooligan who was even more unreasonable than them.

The result is that they, this little hooligan, were finally blackened by the big hooligan, knocked out their front teeth, and could only swallow it with blood.

After the end of World War II, the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce also quickly suffered from capital chain problems. Quickly disappeared, as for the once brilliant Yamanaka Singjiro. In the end, it only came to a sad end.

Although his descendants still operate the Yamanaka store he left behind in the Osaka area, the current Yamanaka store has long since lost its status as the hegemony of the worldwide Chinese antique franchise.

They deserved to end up like that, even in Jin Muchen’s view. They were able to end up with such results, which were all light.

If their Yamanaka store is still brilliant, hehe, then when Jin Muchen comes to Japan this time, I am afraid that he will not only visit the Tokyo National Museum. Inevitably, I have to go to the big board and take a good look at this mountain store, what a brilliant method.

It’s a pity that this wish may not be realized. After all, the Americans paid more than half of our revenge for us back then, although the Americans are not good things.

Putting away his feelings for the store in the mountain, Jin Muchen continued to walk inside.

At this time, it mainly displayed stone carvings from China, and most of these stone carvings were mainly Buddhist themes.

The most striking among them are the eleven exquisite Bodhisattva shrines. These shrines are not small in size. The big ones can be several meters high, and the small ones can be about the same height as normal people.

Moreover, these Bodhisattvas have different shapes, some are sitting, some standing, and some are lying down, and the facial shape of each statue is different from the pattern of clothes on the body and the Buddha seal on the hands.

There are only eleven stone carvings of Buddhist niches, but they reflect a variety of different artistic aesthetics, and the various stone carving techniques of the top stone carvers in ancient China can be reflected in these stone carvings.

Relief, round carving, sunken carving, shadow carving, openwork carving, and openwork carving are all reflected in this stone carving of a Buddhist niche.

Just looking at these carving techniques, Jin Muchen can even say that these eleven Buddha carvings are the best works that combine the culmination of ancient Chinese stone carving techniques.

In history, there are indeed people who have commented on these stone carvings in this way.

This group of stone carvings is a stone statue niche from Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. It was once hailed as a “representative work of Chinese sculpture in the early Tang Dynasty” by Chinese architect Liang Sicheng at that time. It is a classic stone carving work.

When Jin Muchen ‘visited’ the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before, he had ‘collected’ a few of them there. The companion volumes of these stone sculptures for Buddhist niches here can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but there are only a few such stone sculptures in the area. Almost most of the Buddhist niche stone carvings representing the top stone carving craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty in China are stored in Japan.

The stone carvings of these Buddhist niches were originally placed on the pavilion of Qibao relics in Chang’an Guangzhai Temple, which was built by Wu Zetian, and this Anguangzhai Temple was also the most famous Buddhist holy place in the Tang Dynasty at that time.

Later, when Anguangzhai Temple was destroyed by war, the stone carvings of these Buddhist niches were transferred to Baoqing Temple in the south of Xi’an.

In the Ming Dynasty, some rich people and Buddhist believers in Chang’an City also raised funds to repair the Baoqing Temple and these stone carvings. Buddhist altar stone carvings.

Therefore, even in the late Qing Dynasty, the stone carvings of these Buddhist niches were well preserved.

However, in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, this Baoqing Temple Qibaotai statue niche was discovered by the notorious Japanese cultural relic robber, Okakura Tianxin and his assistant Hayasaki Teruji.

Then the two of them got crooked thoughts, especially that Hayasaki Teruyoshi, who was a notorious and crazy guy.

Together with some Japanese businessmen, he used bribes, theft, fraud and other means to loot most of the stone carvings of Buddhist shrines in Baoqing Temple, and then sold them to some Japanese antique dealers, museums, and even some, simply It was sold to the United States by him.

And there are some that he can’t steal, and this **** simply uses the means that the Japanese are best at, that is, I can’t take it away, and I won’t leave it to you Chinese, and just destroy it for you.

It is precisely because of the evil deeds of that Hayasaki Teruyoshi that until now, it is impossible to verify how many stone carvings of Buddhist shrines were made during the Wu Zetian period.

At present, there are only 32 Buddhist shrines with Qibaotai statues that can be tested in the world. Among them, only seven are left by their original owners, Baoqing Temple, and 21 of the remaining 25 are in Japan. The remaining four were sold to the United States by Teruyoshi Hayasaki or other Japanese antique dealers.

Among the 21 stone sculptures of Buddhist shrines in Japan, the Tokyo National Museum alone has 15, and the remaining six are all collected by other Japanese museums, or simply collected by some temples in Japan. These stone carvings of Buddhist shrines are all awarded as Japan’s ‘Important Cultural Properties’ by those shameless Japanese.

Originally, Jin Muchen disliked these Buddha statues, which would take up too much purple jade space. After all, the capacity of his space was really limited, and after looting so many good things this time, his space was almost full.

These stone carvings are not small, he did not intend to collect them, but considering the importance of these stone carvings to us Chinese, and the way they were stolen by the Japanese to go abroad, Jin Muchen gritted his teeth and decided to keep these stone carvings. The Buddha statues are all included in the bag.

After collecting these things, the top Chinese national treasures in the Oriental Pavilion have basically been searched by Jin Muchen.

But looking at the remaining treasures in the museum, Jin Muchen still felt a little unwilling.

Although many of the remaining cultural relics cannot be rated as national treasures in terms of specifications, they are still Chinese cultural relics with distinctive characteristics, such as porcelain from various folk kilns, and some not too famous literati in Chinese history. Calligraphy and painting, as well as some bronzes, and some carvings and so on.

If these cultural relics ~www.readmtl.com~ are taken out, if they are sold, I am afraid that any one of them can be sold for millions, or even tens of millions.

But although their collection value is very high, their artistic value and archaeological value are a little less prominent.

This was also one of the main reasons why Jin Muchen didn’t choose to pack them all away, and there was another main reason, and that was because his Purple Jade Space was basically at full capacity at this time.

Even if he still wanted to take some treasures out, there was no place in his space.

Looking down at the watch, it was already 4:30 at this time, and there was still half an hour before dawn. Because of the longitude of Japan, the time of dawn in Japan was earlier than in China.

So Jin Muchen didn’t plan to stay here for a long time. Once it was dawn, if he wanted to escape from here, it would not be so easy.

Although the fire on Kudanzaka has not been fully extinguished yet, the fire has been brought under control, and the extinguishing is only a matter of two or three hours, so now is the best time to evacuate. (To be continued.)