Take a virtual 4K walk through Kamakura to visit the awe-inspiring Great Buddha (鎌倉大仏), one of Japan’s most famous and ...

The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a colossal copper image of Amitabha Buddha in Kamakura, will undergo full-scale maintenance work from Jan. 13 to March 10. Visitors will not be able to view the ...

Kamakura’s Great Buddha evokes, to be precise, the Amitābha Buddha (Amida Butsu), revered especially by adherents of the Pure Land Buddhist sects.

No trip to Kamakura is complete without a visit to Kotokuin Temple, home of the Daibutsu statue, aka the Great Buddha – the best known of Kamakura’s attractions. The temple dates from 741, and ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--In the late afternoon one weekday in early September, dozens of tourists crowded around a railway crossing here, a pilgrimage site for fans of the popular basketball ...

It is only in the late 12th century that Kamakura became the seat of the shogun ruler. The Kamakura shogunate thrived till the 14th century, when the power centre moved to Kyoto.

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Kamakura Daibutsu (Great Buddha of Kamakura) was cast perhaps around 1252 by Ono Goroemon or Tanji Hisatomo, who were highly respected metal workers of the time, in the middle of the Kamakura period.