A Buddhist sculpture workshop *bussho 仏所 located in Kyoto's Shichijō Takakura 七条高倉, which was founded by Jōchō's 定朝 (?-1057) son Kakujo 覚助 and active from the late Fujiwara period until the Edo period. Kakujo was followed by Kōkei 康慶, Unkei 運慶 (?-1223), and his sons, who formed the *Kei-ha 慶派 school of sculptors. They worked in Shichijō bussho, as well as in their headquarters in Nara Kōfukuji 興福寺. Sources disagree about which workshop was set up first, but Shichijō bussho is considered a branch of the Kei-ha, and the term Shichijō bussho is occasionally used to refer to the Kei-ha in general.
Examples of Shichijō bussho work include the famous central Senju Kannon 千手観音 (1254) and 10 of the standing Kannon figures in Kyoto's Rengeōin 蓮華王院 (Sanjūsangendō 三十三間堂), made by Unkei's son Tankei 湛慶 (1173-1256).
Several members of Shichijō bussho formed separate workshops, which are in a broad sense considered to be part of the same school. Important branch schools include: shichijō nishi bussho 七条西仏所 established by Unkei's grandson Kōyo 康誉 in the 14th century; shichijō naka bussho 七条中仏所, established in the 13th century by Unkei's third son Kōben 康弁; and shichijō higashi bussho 七条東仏所 established in the 14th century by Kōshun 康俊, son of Unkei's sixth son Unjo 運助.