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Examples
| Image | Name | Buddha | Size | Date | Municipality | Prefecture | Comments |
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| Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[2] | Script error: No such module "convert". | 1984 | Aomori | Aomori Prefecture | |||
| Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Script error: No such module "convert". | Hiraizumi | Iwate Prefecture | Low relief carving at Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | |||
| Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[3] | Amida Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". including base and lotus (Script error: No such module "convert".) | 1993 | Ushiku | Ibaraki Prefecture | Japan's largest daibutsu | |
| File:Postcard Buddha.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[4] | Yakushi Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". | 1790 | Kyonan | Chiba Prefecture | Carved in the 1780s and 90s by Jingoro Eirei Ono and his apprentices and restored to its present form in 1969. Japan's largest pre-modern (and largest stone-carved) daibutsu. The same site is also home to another large Buddha carving, the Hyakushaku KannonScript error: No such module "Unsubst". |
| File:Kamagaya-daibutsu.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shaka Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert"., including base (Script error: No such module "convert".) | 1776 | Kamagaya | Chiba Prefecture | Japan's smallest daibutsu made of bronzeScript error: No such module "Unsubst". |
| File:Ueno Daibutsu.JPG | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[5] | Shaka Nyorai | 1631 | Taitō | Tokyo | Heavily damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and melted down for the war effort | |
| Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[6] | Script error: No such module "convert". including base | 1977 | Itabashi | Tokyo | Weighs thirty tons; at Script error: No such module "Nihongo".; erected in expiation of the Great Kantō earthquake and the war | ||
| File:Kamakura Budda Daibutsu front 1885.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[7] | Amida Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". | 1252 | Kamakura | Kanagawa Prefecture | Subject of the poem The Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling; National Treasure |
| File:Takaoka Daibutsu 2011-07-15 01.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Amida Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". | 1981 | Takaoka | Toyama Prefecture | At Script error: No such module "Nihongo". |
| Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[8] | Script error: No such module "convert". | Katsuyama | Fukui Prefecture | ||||
| File:Gifugreatbuddha.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[9] | Shaka Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". | 1828 | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture | At Shōhō-ji (正法寺) |
| File:Hōkōji Daibutsu Kaempfer.png | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 1660s | Kyoto | Kyoto Prefecture | Sketch of c.1691 by Engelbert Kaempfer | ||
| File:NaraTodaijiDaibutsu0212.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[10] | Vairocana | Script error: No such module "convert". | 752 | Nara | Nara Prefecture | Restored several times; part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara; National Treasure |
| File:Asuka dera daibutsu.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[11][12] | Shaka Nyorai | Script error: No such module "convert". | 609 | Asuka | Nara Prefecture | Japan's oldest daibutsu and Buddhist statue, restored; Important Cultural Property |
| File:Hyogo Daibutsu.jpg | Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[13] | 1891 | Kobe | Hyōgo Prefecture | At Script error: No such module "Nihongo".; melted down in 1944 for the war effortScript error: No such module "Unsubst". and since replaced | ||
| (Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[14] | Gautama Buddha | Script error: No such module "convert". (length) | 1899 | Sasaguri | Fukuoka Prefecture | At Nanzoin (南蔵院); contains ashes of The Buddha and two of his disciples. |
There are also several in Aichi Prefecture. https://www.aichi-now.jp/en/features/detail/4/
See also
- Japanese Buddhism
- Japanese Buddhist architecture
- Japanese sculpture
- List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)
References
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