The impressive durability of Kamakura’s Daibutsu means that we encounter the same commanding presence that towered before Kipling. The bronze statue stands more than 11 meters tall atop a 2 ...

No trip to Kamakura is complete without a visit to Kotokuin Temple, home of the Daibutsu statue, aka the Great Buddha – the best known of Kamakura’s attractions. The temple dates from 741 ...

Kamakura Daibutsu (Great Buddha of Kamakura) was cast perhaps around 1252 by Ono Goroemon or Tanji Hisatomo, who were highly respected metal workers of the time, in the middle of the Kamakura period.