Sanjoudou, a workshop specializing in wooden Buddha restoration From left ... great grandfather's name written inside the statue's head ― indicating that it had been once repaired in the ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--The hollowed out head of an ancient Buddhist statue ... cover nearly every inch of space. The wooden seated statue sculpture is the temple’s principal object ...

From the Valley of Despair Keeper's Shrine, head across the wooden bridge ... turn left to spot a torch-lit altar with a big statue and the Buddha head at the base of it. 3.

Dozens of temple members and local residents standing by the roadside applauded to welcome the statue as a truck carrying a ...