Abstract

The scrawny and emaciated Amitabha Nyorai, the hidden Buddha with organs and skeleton inside his body, the Kishimojin with implanted human hair.... Why were they "made" that way?
This book carefully selects 120 of the most astonishing statues of gods and Buddha in Japan and deciphers the prayers and faith that are embedded in their unparalleled forms.

Author’s Information

Born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1963. Editor and nonfiction writer. Representative of the editorial production "Shonensha. Author of "Kobo-Daishi Kukai Yomihon" (Kobo-Daishi Kukai Readers) and others (this data was published at the time this book was published).