The Trip of Fifteen Hundred Buddhas

Some more pictures from Lilah's trip here. On one of our afternoons we went to see the Big Buddha at the Nihon-ji Temple in Chiba Prefecture, just a short distance from where we live. Sally was our tour guide; it was an area of stunning beauty and dizzying heights. Not to mention some 1500 Buddhas carved by master artisan Jingoro Eirei Ono and his 27 apprentices in the 1780s and 1790s. The trip took us most of the day and covered about two to three miles of numerous hills and trails, culminating in the giant Buddha, or Daibutsu. This Daibutsu of Yakushi Nyorai is twice the size of the Kamakura (another town not far from here) Daibutsu and Nara (I have not been to this one) Daibutsu, making it the largest of pre-modern Japan's existing Big Buddha statues. The Nihon-ji Temple itself dates back to 725 AD.

History lesson over. Here's the pictures: The first group is of the cable car and some of the picturesque paths taken to get to start of the statues.