Over the past seven years, the women have worked on more than 70 wooden Buddha statues throughout Japan. Examples of Sanjoudou's restoration work The restoration process is labor-intensive and ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been ...

The Great Buddha at Leshan This colossal statue was carved on a cliff on Soaring ... chamber is furnished with a huge, old-fashioned wooden bed and a long, narrow table with some antique china ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...