# Daibutsu
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{{Short description|Statues of Buddha in Japan}}
{{For|such statues outside of Japan|Great Buddha (disambiguation)}}
{{For|the Japanese architectural style|Daibutsuyō}}
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[[File:Hokoji(rushanabutsu).jpg|thumb|Replica of [Great Buddha of Kyoto](/source/%3Ajp%3A%E4%BA%AC%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E4%BB%8F)]]
{{nihongo|'''''Daibutsu'''''|大仏|extra=[kyūjitai](/source/ky%C5%ABjitai): 大佛}} or 'giant Buddha' is the [Japanese term](/source/Japanese_language), often used informally, for large [statues](/source/Japanese_sculpture) of [Buddha](/source/List_of_Buddhas). The oldest is that at [Asuka-dera](/source/Asuka-dera) (609) and the best-known is that at [Tōdai-ji](/source/T%C5%8Ddai-ji) in [Nara](/source/Nara%2C_Nara) (752).[{{citation |last=Bamforth |first=Chris|title=The capital delights of Nara | newspaper=[The Japan Times](/source/The_Japan_Times) |date=26 May 2006 |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2006/05/26/travel/the-capital-delights-of-nara/#.W-emJuKIaSo}}] The Tōdai-ji Daibutsu is a part of the [UNESCO World Heritage Site](/source/World_Heritage_Sites_in_Japan) as one of the seven [Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara](/source/Historic_Monuments_of_Ancient_Nara) and a [National Treasure](/source/National_Treasures_of_Japan).
== Examples ==
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! style="text-align:left; width:22%; background:#ffdead;"| Name
! style="text-align:left; width:8%; background:#ffdead;"| Buddha
! style="text-align:left; width:10%; background:#ffdead;"| Size
! style="text-align:left; width:10%; background:#ffdead;"| Date
! style="text-align:left; width:10%; background:#ffdead;"| Municipality
! style="text-align:left; width:12%; background:#ffdead;"| Prefecture
! style="text-align:left; width:20%; background:#ffdead;" class="unsortable"| Comments
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| || {{nihongo|[Shōwa Daibutsu](/source/Seiry%C5%AB-ji)|昭和大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.showa-daibutu.com/ |title=Shōwa Daibutsu |publisher=[Seiryū-ji](/source/Seiry%C5%AB-ji) |accessdate=23 May 2011}}] || || {{Convert|21.35|m|ft|1}} || 1984 || [Aomori](/source/Aomori%2C_Aomori) || [Aomori Prefecture](/source/Aomori_Prefecture) ||
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| || {{nihongo|Ganmen Daibutsu|岩面大仏}} || || {{Convert|16.5|m|ft|1}} || || [Hiraizumi](/source/Hiraizumi) || [Iwate Prefecture](/source/Iwate_Prefecture) || Low relief carving at {{nihongo|Takkoku no Iwaya|達谷窟}}
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|frameless|| {{nihongo|[Ushiku Daibutsu](/source/Ushiku_Daibutsu)|牛久大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.ushikukankou.com/ushikudaibutsu_sugao.htm |title=Ushiku Daibutsu |publisher=[Ushiku Daibutsu](/source/Ushiku_Daibutsu) |accessdate=23 May 2011}}] || [Amida Nyorai](/source/Amida_Nyorai) || {{Convert|120|m|ft|1}} including base and [lotus](/source/Padma_(attribute)) ({{Convert|20|m|ft|1}}) || 1993 || [Ushiku](/source/Ushiku%2C_Ibaraki) || [Ibaraki Prefecture](/source/Ibaraki_Prefecture) || Japan's largest daibutsu
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| 150px || {{nihongo|[Nihon-ji](/source/Nihon-ji) Daibutsu|日本寺大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.nihonji.jp/revival/index.html |title=Nihonji Daibutsu |publisher=Nihon-ji |accessdate=23 May 2011 |archive-date=15 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915075732/http://www.nihonji.jp/revival/index.html |url-status=dead }}] || [Yakushi Nyorai](/source/Yakushi_Nyorai) || {{Convert|31.05|m|ft|1}} || 1790 || [Kyonan](/source/Kyonan%2C_Chiba) || [Chiba Prefecture](/source/Chiba_Prefecture) || 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{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}
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| 150px || {{nihongo|[Kamagaya Daibutsu](/source/Kamagaya_Great_Buddha)|鎌ヶ谷大仏}} || [Shaka Nyorai](/source/Shaka_Nyorai) || {{Convert|2.3|m|ft|1}}, including base ({{Convert|0.5|m|ft|1}}) || 1776 || [Kamagaya](/source/Kamagaya%2C_Chiba) || [Chiba Prefecture](/source/Chiba_Prefecture) || Japan's smallest daibutsu made of bronze{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}
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| 150px || {{nihongo|Former [Ueno Daibutsu](/source/Ueno_Daibutsu)|上野大仏}}[{{cite news |url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/siseki/20100413-OYT8T00589.htm |title=Ueno Daibutsu |work=[Daily Yomiuri](/source/Daily_Yomiuri) |date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=23 May 2011 |archive-date=16 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116042737/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/siseki/20100413-OYT8T00589.htm |url-status=dead }}] || [Shaka Nyorai](/source/Shaka_Nyorai) || || 1631 || [Taitō](/source/Tait%C5%8D%2C_Tokyo) || [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo) || Heavily damaged in the [1923 Great Kantō earthquake](/source/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake) and melted down for the [war effort](/source/Pacific_War)
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||| {{nihongo|Tokyo Daibutsu|東京大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp/c_kurashi/003/003913.html |title=Tokyo Daibutsu |publisher=[Itabashi Ward](/source/Itabashi%2C_Tokyo) |accessdate=23 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212020700/http://www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp/c_kurashi/003/003913.html |archive-date=12 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}] || || {{Convert|13|m|ft|1}} including base || 1977 || [Itabashi](/source/Itabashi%2C_Tokyo) || [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo) || Weighs thirty tons; at {{nihongo|Jōren-ji|乗蓮寺}}; erected in expiation of the [Great Kantō earthquake](/source/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake) and the [war](/source/Pacific_War)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|[Kamakura Daibutsu](/source/K%C5%8Dtoku-in)|鎌倉大仏}}[{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/270 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223154741/https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/270 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2019 |title=Database of National Cultural Properties |publisher=[Agency for Cultural Affairs](/source/Agency_for_Cultural_Affairs) |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}] || [Amida Nyorai](/source/Amida_Nyorai) || {{Convert|13.35|m|ft|1}} || 1252 || [Kamakura](/source/Kamakura%2C_Kanagawa) || [Kanagawa Prefecture](/source/Kanagawa_Prefecture) || Subject of the poem ''The Buddha at Kamakura'' by [Rudyard Kipling](/source/Rudyard_Kipling); [National Treasure](/source/National_Treasures_of_Japan)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|Takaoka Daibutsu|高岡大仏}} || [Amida Nyorai](/source/Amida_Nyorai) || {{Convert|15.85|m|ft|1}} || 1981 || [Takaoka](/source/Takaoka%2C_Toyama) || [Toyama Prefecture](/source/Toyama_Prefecture) || At {{nihongo|Daibutsu-ji|大佛寺}}
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||| {{nihongo|Echizen Daibutsu|越前大仏}}[{{cite web|url=http://www.city.katsuyama.fukui.jp/english/english.html |title=Katsuyama Profile |publisher=[Katsuyama City](/source/Katsuyama%2C_Fukui) |accessdate=4 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007101616/http://www.city.katsuyama.fukui.jp/english/english.html |archivedate=7 October 2007}}] || || {{Convert|17|m|ft|1}} || || [Katsuyama](/source/Katsuyama%2C_Fukui) || [Fukui Prefecture](/source/Fukui_Prefecture) ||
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| 150px|| {{nihongo|[Gifu Daibutsu](/source/Gifu_Great_Buddha)|岐阜大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.gifu-daibutsu.com/shohoji/english.html |title=Gifu Shouhouji Daibutsu (Great Buddha) |publisher=[Shōhō-ji](/source/Sh%C5%8Dh%C5%8D-ji_(Gifu)) |accessdate=4 December 2007 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092459/http://www.gifu-daibutsu.com/shohoji/english.html |url-status=dead }}] || [Shaka Nyorai](/source/Shaka_Nyorai) || {{Convert|13.63|m|ft|1}} || 1828 || [Gifu](/source/Gifu%2C_Gifu) || [Gifu Prefecture](/source/Gifu_Prefecture) ||At Shōhō-ji (正法寺)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|Former [Hōkō-ji Daibutsu](/source/H%C5%8Dk%C5%8D-ji_(Kyoto))|方広寺大仏}} || || || 1660s || [Kyoto](/source/Kyoto) || [Kyoto Prefecture](/source/Kyoto_Prefecture) || Sketch of c.1691 by [Engelbert Kaempfer](/source/Engelbert_Kaempfer)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|[Nara Daibutsu](/source/T%C5%8Ddai-ji)|奈良大仏}}[{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/271 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223151745/https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/271 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2019 |title=Database of National Cultural Properties |publisher=[Agency for Cultural Affairs](/source/Agency_for_Cultural_Affairs) |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}] || [Vairocana](/source/Vairocana) || {{Convert|14.98|m|ft|1}} || 752 || [Nara](/source/Nara%2C_Nara) || [Nara Prefecture](/source/Nara_Prefecture) || Restored several times; part of the [UNESCO World Heritage Site](/source/World_Heritage_Sites_in_Japan): [Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara](/source/Historic_Monuments_of_Ancient_Nara); [National Treasure](/source/National_Treasures_of_Japan)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|[Asuka Daibutsu](/source/Asuka-dera)|飛鳥大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/s/sandaibutsu.htm |title=Sandaibutsu |publisher=[Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System](/source/Japanese_Architecture_and_Art_Net_Users_System) |accessdate=23 May 2011}}][{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/4256 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223154739/https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/4256 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2019 |title=Database of National Cultural Properties |publisher=[Agency for Cultural Affairs](/source/Agency_for_Cultural_Affairs) |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}] || [Shaka Nyorai](/source/Shaka_Nyorai) || {{Convert|2.75|m|ft|1}} || 609 || [Asuka](/source/Asuka%2C_Nara) || [Nara Prefecture](/source/Nara_Prefecture) || Japan's oldest daibutsu and Buddhist statue, restored; [Important Cultural Property](/source/Important_Cultural_Properties_of_Japan)
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| 150px || {{nihongo|Former Hyōgo Daibutsu|兵庫大仏}}[{{cite web |url=http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/target.php?id=1044 |title=Daibutsu Hyogo |publisher=Nagasaki University Library |accessdate=23 May 2011}}] || || || 1891 || [Kobe](/source/Kobe) || [Hyōgo Prefecture](/source/Hy%C5%8Dgo_Prefecture) || At {{nihongo|[Nōfuku-ji](/source/N%C5%8Dfuku-ji)|能福寺}}; melted down in 1944 for the [war effort](/source/Pacific_War){{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} and since replaced
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||| ({{nihongo|[Nehanzo](/source/Nanzoin_temple) | 涅槃仏}}[{{cite web|title=Karmic Cleansing|url=http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/karmic-cleansing/|website=Macleans.ca|accessdate=9 December 2015}}] || [Gautama Buddha](/source/Gautama_Buddha) || {{Convert|41|m|ft|1}} (length) ||1899|| [Sasaguri](/source/Sasaguri%2C_Fukuoka) || [Fukuoka Prefecture](/source/Fukuoka_Prefecture) || At [Nanzoin](/source/Nanzoin_temple) (南蔵院); contains ashes of [The Buddha](/source/Gautama_Buddha) and two of his disciples.
|}
There are also several in Aichi Prefecture.
https://www.aichi-now.jp/en/features/detail/4/
== See also ==
* [Japanese Buddhism](/source/Japanese_Buddhism)
* [Japanese Buddhist architecture](/source/Japanese_Buddhist_architecture)
* [Japanese sculpture](/source/Japanese_sculpture)
* [List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)](/source/List_of_National_Treasures_of_Japan_(sculptures))
== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Monumental statues of Buddha}}
* [http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/big-buddha-japan.shtml Photographs and information on famous Daibutsu]
* [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=138557&imageID=119545&word=japan&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=1807&num=108&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=111 New York Public Library Digital Gallery, early photograph of Kamakura Daibutsu from rear] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211145539/http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=138557&imageID=119545&word=japan&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=1807&num=108&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=111 |date=11 February 2012 }}
* [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139476&imageID=110013&word=japan&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=1807&num=588&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=595 New York Public Library Digital Gallery, early photograph of Hyōgo Daibutsu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211145748/http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139476&imageID=110013&word=japan&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=1807&num=588&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=595 |date=11 February 2012 }}
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