Research on Wood Types and Material Selection for Japanese Wooden Statues of the Ancient Period

我们对公元8-9年的独木雕像和公元10-11年的关东和东北地区的斧雕雕像进行了木材鉴定，并在一篇论文中讨论了它们的意义。我们还研究了来自不同地区的大约130尊神道雕像，并指出日本西部和东部(包括基奈地区)在木材选择上的差异。对一些神道雕像的放射性碳测年显示，材料树的砍伐日期与雕像的制造日期之间存在差异。这些数据的积累应该会澄清这两种日期之间的关系，并在古代雕像的木材选择方面产生不同于树状年代学的另一个方面。

We carried out wood identification of single-bole statues of the 8th to 9th AD and hatchet-sculpted statues of the Kanto and Tohoku districts of the 10th to 11th AD and discussed their implication in a paper. We also studies ca. 130 Shinto statues from various regions and indicated difference in the wood selection between western and eastern Japan including the Kinai area. Radiocarbon dating of some Shinto statues showed discrepancies between the felling dates of material trees and the manufacturing dates of statues. Accumulation of such data should clarify a relationship between these two types of dates and yield another aspect in the wood selection for ancient statues different from that deduced from dendrochronology.