SEOUL–Upholding a previous court judgment, South Korea’s supreme court denied a South Korean temple’s case to a challenged Buddhist statuary, which was swiped from a Japanese temple greater than a years back.
In the judgment onOct 26, the supreme court verified a high court choice that the centuries-old sculpture comes from Japan’s Kannonji temple, regardless of having actually been appropriated from the Korean Peninsula by Japanese pirates in middle ages times.
The high court ruled in February that Kannonji temple had actually acquired “acquisitive prescription” under Japan’s civil regulation since it had actually had the statuary for greater than two decades, the duration called for to get lawful possession.
The seated statuary of the Kanzeon Bodhisattva was swiped from Kannonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 2012 by South Korean intruders. The statuary is assigned as a.