Great Buddha Back. Kamakura, Japan - November 2011 by theseus88bc
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As was requested, here is a photo of the Great Buddha with the rear windows open. We never went inside so I have no idea what the view of the hills to the rear would have been like, but no doubt they are spectacular!
Photo would have been larger but the 512kb limit is a bit of a pain.
Thanks for looking.
Iain
Comments (9)
neiwil
Fantastic, what great texture, is it copper cladding? I can imagine this shining in the sun a few centuries ago...though on reflection (no pun) I'd assume they'd keep it polished if that were the case.Fascinating all the same, especially those loops, used to rope it to some giant cart for transport to this sight? So much you can read into an image like this (and probably wrong on all of them :-)
theseus88bc
I think it's bronze yeah... and I never even noticed the loops. According to a website this is the brief history: "The Diabutsu was cast in 1252 in the Kamakura period and was originally housed inside a temple, as in Nara. But a huge tsunami washed away the wooden structure sometime in the late 15th century, and the statue has sat out in nature ever since." So I'm guessing it may originally have been polished while under cover, but outside they leave it be?
debbielove
Never seen the back before! Thanks, always wondered! Rob
ysvry
thx for showing, how odd to put 2 windows in the budas back like that?
flavia49
impressive
PhilW
Quite fun that they should put that in a statue like that - and I with the earlier comment - great texture too!
NefariousDrO
That is so cool! it must be kinda strange inside that statue, though!
RobertJ
I a bit late with my comment, I have been inside that statue in 2004, at the height of summer, those are not windows, their vent heat from the inside to the outside :)
theseus88bc
Cool... just as well we never went up there... enclosed spaces with no light don't work for me. Thanks for clearing up the windows confusion ^_^