daibutsu

Updated: July 13, 2026

All the principal idol-makers were summoned to the capital, and among them were said to have been some Chinese experts. Hideyoshi declared that whereas the Nara Daibutsu had taken twenty-seven years to build, the Kyoto image should be finished in five. He kept his word. No less than twenty-one provinces were placed under requisition for labour and materials.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era