#Kamakura🇯🇵Great Buddha#

The founder of the Pure Land sect of Buddhist temples was Honen Shonin, and the main statue of Kotoku-in Temple, the national treasure, the bronze seated Amitabha Buddha, is famous for its open-air statue. This statue, which is about 11.3 meters tall and weighs about 121 tons, has remained almost exactly as it was when it was first built, and has a very high value in the history of Japanese Buddhist art. The construction of the statue began in 1252, but there are many unknown details about the construction at that time, so the author of the statue is still unknown. The Buddha statue, which took more than 750 years to create, is a symbol of the spread of Buddhism to the East, and attracts many Buddhist believers from home and abroad regardless of their sects. Since we can enter the body of the Buddha to visit, we can be sure that this Buddha statue was cast using extremely advanced technology. About 7 minutes on foot from Enoshima Electric Railway Hase Station. #2024TravelReview