However, since the Meiji period, it has referred to an art object which was created in or before the early Heian period by using the technique introduced from the Chinese continent in the Nara period and has been handed down.
だが、明治時代以降は奈良時代に中国大陸から伝来し、平安時代初期頃までに製作された伝世品を云うようになった。