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extra=kyūjitai: 大佛 or 'giant Buddha' is the Japanese term, often used informally, for large statues of Buddha. The oldest is that at Asuka-dera (609) and the best-known is that at Tōdai-ji in Nara (752). The Tōdai-ji Daibutsu is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the seven Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara and a National Treasure.
| Low relief carving at 達谷窟 | |
| Japan's largest daibutsu | |
| Carved in the 1780s and 90s by Jingoro Eirei Ono and his apprentices and restored to its present form in 1969. Japan's largest pre-modern (and largest stone-carved) daibutsu. The same site is also home to another large Buddha carving, the Hyakushaku Kannon | |
| Japan's smallest daibutsu made of bronze | |
| Heavily damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and melted down for the Pacific War | |
| Weighs thirty tons; at 乗蓮寺; erected in expiation of the Great Kantō earthquake and the Pacific War | |
| Subject of the poem The Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling; National Treasure | |
| At 大佛寺 | |
| At Shōhō-ji (正法寺) | |
| Sketch of c.1691 by Engelbert Kaempfer | |
| Restored several times; part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara; National Treasure | |
| Japan's oldest daibutsu and Buddhist statue, restored; Important Cultural Property | |
| At 能福寺; melted down in 1944 for the Pacific War and since replaced | |
| At Nanzoin temple (南蔵院); contains ashes of Gautama Buddha and two of his disciples. |
There are also several in Aichi Prefecture. https://www.aichi-now.jp/en/features/detail/4/
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