No trip to Kamakura is complete without a visit to Kotokuin Temple, home of the Daibutsu statue ... off from the store’s handmade postbox. Located close to Kamakura’s Great Buddha, Haseto ...

“The Buddha is some 760 years old and has been sitting outside for more than 500 years, exposed to salty sea breezes, continual seismic shaking, bird droppings, and—in recent decades—to acid ...

a colossal copper image of Amitabha Buddha in Kamakura, Japan, will undergo full-scale maintenance work from Jan. 13 to March 10. Visitors will not be able to view the statue, which is designated a ...

And, after seeing the Daibutsu — the city's famed 13-meter tall bronze statue of Amida Buddha — it's easy to feel that Kamakura falls flat. Souvenir shops, food, entrance fees, tour groups ...

The face of the great Buddha statue at Kotoku-in temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, is seen on March 22, 2016. (Mainichi) The great Buddha statue in Japan's old capital Kamakura, Kanagawa ...

The figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the supreme Buddha, is attributed to Unkei, one of the two best sculptors of the early Kamakura period in the 1190s, when the most highly regarded Buddhist art ...

The two most famous Buddha statues in Japan are the ones at Kamakura’s Kotokuin Temple and Nara’s Todaiji Temple. Respectively 13.35 and 15 meters tall, they’re both astounding artistic achievements, ...