The Great Buddha statue in Kamakura is located at Kotoku-in Temple in the Ancient Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.The bronze statue probably dated at 1252 during the Kamakura period was preceded by a giant wooden Buddha which was completed in the year 1243. It has been destroyed several times by natural disasters such as floods, tsunami and earthquake but since the last washaway in the year 1498, it has withstood natural disaster until now except for some damages in the base during the Great Kanto Earthquake in the year 1923.
Below are some of the stats of the statue taken from Wikipedia:
- Weight; 93 tons
- Height; 13.35m
- Length of Face; 2.35m
- Length of Eye; 1.0m
- Length of Mouth; 0.82m
- Length of Ear; 1.90m
- Length from knee to knee; 9.10m
- Circumference of thumb; 0.85m
So enjoy!
That's the Great Buddha Statue in the winter 2008..it was only 4pm and it has turned dark and rain started to drizzle but from here it looks like it's snowing..maybe sleek perhaps
With lighting at 'night'..
That's me as a proof I was there in the year 2007 winter.
and here we are, during the year 2008 winter, it was sunny in the afternoon lucky for me..
Different point of view of the Great Buddha Statue
A close-up shot of the Buddha
love the cloud effects all over and I was lucky that the skies were very blue at that time
Inside the Buddha's statue and the hollow that you see is the head of the Buddha itself..and you just pay a mere 5 yen to enter..
and that's me again as a proof that I was there in the year 2008 winter..
Well that's all for now for the first Kamakura Heritage Series..more to come soon..
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