rolling waves style

The drapery, known as hompa (“wave”), is one of the most distinguishing features of the Jōgan style. The folds are cut deeply in a simple measured rhythm, a technique suggestive of the string drapery of the colossal image of the Buddha at Bāmīān, Afghanistan, which was a focal figure…

This style, hompa-shiki, came to greater prominence in the early Heian period.