造ぞう仏ぶつ所しょ

noun

government-run Buddhist sculpture workshop (Nara period)

Historical term for an official workshop that produced Buddhist statues under state patronage during the Nara period (710–794).

See also: 仏所

• 奈な良ら時じ代だいの造ぞう仏ぶつ所しょでは、国こっ家かの事じ業ぎょうとして仏ぶつ像ぞうが造つくられた。

  At the government-run Buddhist sculpture workshops of the Nara period, Buddhist statues were produced as state projects.