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 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 ...

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 ...

No one knows exactly how old the statue is, but many say it dates to at least 1252. The Great Buddha was preceded by a wooden monument of the same grandeur that took 10 years of constant labor to ...