{{Short description|Statues of Buddha in Japan}} {{For|such statues outside of Japan|Great Buddha (disambiguation)}} {{For|the Japanese architectural style|Daibutsuyō}} {{Italic title|reason=:Category:Japanese words and phrases}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} [[File:Hokoji(rushanabutsu).jpg|thumb|Replica of Great Buddha of Kyoto]] {{nihongo|'''''Daibutsu'''''|大仏|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).<ref name=bamforth>{{citation |last=Bamforth |first=Chris|title=The capital delights of Nara | newspaper=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}}</ref> 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.
== Examples == {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; background:#fff;" |- ! style="text-align:left; width:8%; background:#ffdead;" class="unsortable"|Image ! 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 |-
| || {{nihongo|Shōwa Daibutsu|昭和大仏}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showa-daibutu.com/ |title=Shōwa Daibutsu |publisher=Seiryū-ji |accessdate=23 May 2011}}</ref> || || {{Convert|21.35|m|ft|1}} || 1984 || Aomori || Aomori Prefecture || |- | || {{nihongo|Ganmen Daibutsu|岩面大仏}}<!--reliable reference? images per google don't seem to agree; identified as Amida Butsu and commemorates the deaths of soldiers in two local wars in the 11th century. Originally it was a full Buddha seated in heaven but the body was destroyed in an earthquake in 1896. Takkoku no Iwaya Bishamondō: Visitor information pamphlet. Published by Betto Takkoku Seikōji, ph.(0191)46-4931 --> || || {{Convert|16.5|m|ft|1}} || || Hiraizumi || Iwate Prefecture || Low relief carving at {{nihongo|Takkoku no Iwaya|達谷窟}} |- |frameless|| {{nihongo|Ushiku Daibutsu|牛久大仏}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushikukankou.com/ushikudaibutsu_sugao.htm |title=Ushiku Daibutsu |publisher=Ushiku Daibutsu |accessdate=23 May 2011}}</ref> || Amida Nyorai || {{Convert|120|m|ft|1}} including base and lotus ({{Convert|20|m|ft|1}}) || 1993 || Ushiku || Ibaraki Prefecture || Japan's largest daibutsu |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Nihon-ji Daibutsu|日本寺大仏}}<ref>{{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 }}</ref> || Yakushi Nyorai || {{Convert|31.05|m|ft|1}} || 1790 || Kyonan || 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}} |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Kamagaya Daibutsu|鎌ヶ谷大仏}} || Shaka Nyorai || {{Convert|2.3|m|ft|1}}, including base ({{Convert|0.5|m|ft|1}}) || 1776 || Kamagaya || Chiba Prefecture || Japan's smallest daibutsu made of bronze{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Former Ueno Daibutsu|上野大仏}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/siseki/20100413-OYT8T00589.htm |title=Ueno Daibutsu |work=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 }}</ref> || Shaka Nyorai || || 1631 || Taitō || Tokyo || Heavily damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and melted down for the war effort |- ||| {{nihongo|Tokyo Daibutsu|東京大仏}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp/c_kurashi/003/003913.html |title=Tokyo Daibutsu |publisher=Itabashi Ward |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 }}</ref> || || {{Convert|13|m|ft|1}} including base || 1977 || Itabashi || Tokyo || Weighs thirty tons; at {{nihongo|Jōren-ji|乗蓮寺}}; erected in expiation of the Great Kantō earthquake and the war |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Kamakura Daibutsu|鎌倉大仏}}<ref>{{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 |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}</ref> || Amida Nyorai || {{Convert|13.35|m|ft|1}} || 1252 || Kamakura || Kanagawa Prefecture || Subject of the poem ''The Buddha at Kamakura'' by Rudyard Kipling; National Treasure |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Takaoka Daibutsu|高岡大仏}} || Amida Nyorai || {{Convert|15.85|m|ft|1}} || 1981 || Takaoka || Toyama Prefecture || At {{nihongo|Daibutsu-ji|大佛寺}} |- ||| {{nihongo|Echizen Daibutsu|越前大仏}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city.katsuyama.fukui.jp/english/english.html |title=Katsuyama Profile |publisher=Katsuyama City |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}}</ref> || || {{Convert|17|m|ft|1}} || || Katsuyama || Fukui Prefecture || |- | 150px|| {{nihongo|Gifu Daibutsu|岐阜大仏}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gifu-daibutsu.com/shohoji/english.html |title=Gifu Shouhouji Daibutsu (Great Buddha) |publisher=Shōhō-ji |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 }}</ref> || Shaka Nyorai || {{Convert|13.63|m|ft|1}} || 1828 || Gifu || Gifu Prefecture ||At Shōhō-ji (正法寺) |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Former Hōkō-ji Daibutsu|方広寺大仏}} || || || 1660s || Kyoto || Kyoto Prefecture || Sketch of c.1691 by Engelbert Kaempfer |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Nara Daibutsu|奈良大仏}}<ref>{{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 |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}</ref> || Vairocana || {{Convert|14.98|m|ft|1}} || 752 || Nara || Nara Prefecture || Restored several times; part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara; National Treasure |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Asuka Daibutsu|飛鳥大仏}}<ref name=Sandaibutsu>{{cite web |url=http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/s/sandaibutsu.htm |title=Sandaibutsu |publisher=Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System |accessdate=23 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{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 |accessdate=23 May 2011 }}</ref> || Shaka Nyorai || {{Convert|2.75|m|ft|1}} || 609 || Asuka || Nara Prefecture || Japan's oldest daibutsu and Buddhist statue, restored; Important Cultural Property |- | 150px || {{nihongo|Former Hyōgo Daibutsu|兵庫大仏}}<ref>{{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}}</ref> || || || 1891 || Kobe || Hyōgo Prefecture || At {{nihongo|Nōfuku-ji|能福寺}}; melted down in 1944 for the war effort{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} and since replaced |- ||| ({{nihongo|Nehanzo | 涅槃仏}}<ref name=Macleans>{{cite web|title=Karmic Cleansing|url=http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/karmic-cleansing/|website=Macleans.ca|accessdate=9 December 2015}}</ref> || Gautama Buddha || {{Convert|41|m|ft|1}} (length) ||1899|| Sasaguri || Fukuoka Prefecture || At Nanzoin (南蔵院); contains ashes of The 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 * Japanese Buddhist architecture * Japanese sculpture * List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
== 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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