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Kōtoku-in Great Buddha

Bronze Amida Buddha of 1252 at Kamakura, 13.35 m and 121 tonnes, sitting in the open. The hall that sheltered it was swept away by the tsunami of the 1498 Meiō earthquake and never rebuilt, so the statue has weathered five centuries of open sky.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1243 CE mainstream
  earlier wooden Buddha completed source
• 1252 CE mainstream
  present bronze statue cast source
• 1498 CE mainstream
  Meiō earthquake tsunami destroys the hall over it source

Where

35.3169° N, 139.5358° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtoku-in

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