Daibutsu

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Replica of Great Buddha of Kyoto

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Examples

Image Name Buddha Size Date Municipality Prefecture Comments
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[2] 21.35 metres (70.0 ft) 1984 Aomori Aomori Prefecture
Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 16.5 metres (54.1 ft) Hiraizumi Iwate Prefecture Low relief carving at Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[3] Amida Nyorai 120 metres (393.7 ft) including base and lotus (20 metres (65.6 ft)) 1993 Ushiku Ibaraki Prefecture Japan's largest daibutsu
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[4] Yakushi Nyorai 31.05 metres (101.9 ft) 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 Kannon[citation needed]
Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Shaka Nyorai 2.3 metres (7.5 ft), including base (0.5 metres (1.6 ft)) 1776 Kamagaya Chiba Prefecture Japan's smallest daibutsu made of bronze[citation needed]
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] 13 metres (42.7 ft) 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
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[7] Amida Nyorai 13.35 metres (43.8 ft) 1252 Kamakura Kanagawa Prefecture Subject of the poem The Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling; National Treasure
Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Amida Nyorai 15.85 metres (52.0 ft) 1981 Takaoka Toyama Prefecture At Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[8] 17 metres (55.8 ft) Katsuyama Fukui Prefecture
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[9] Shaka Nyorai 13.63 metres (44.7 ft) 1828 Gifu Gifu Prefecture At Shōhō-ji (正法寺)
Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1660s Kyoto Kyoto Prefecture Sketch of c.1691 by Engelbert Kaempfer
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[10] Vairocana 14.98 metres (49.1 ft) 752 Nara Nara Prefecture Restored several times; part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara; National Treasure
Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[11][12] Shaka Nyorai 2.75 metres (9.0 ft) 609 Asuka Nara Prefecture Japan's oldest daibutsu and Buddhist statue, restored; Important Cultural Property
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 effort[citation needed] and since replaced
(Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[14] Gautama Buddha 41 metres (134.5 ft) (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

References

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