OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the ... According to the education board, it is bigger than the 81-cm statue in Saihoji temple in Kyoto’s Sakyo Ward, which was believed to be the largest ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...

and sometimes from Hokkaido and Osaka.” Keiko Nakane, 85, brought 68 stone statues, including the giant Kannon statue, in 2006. “I asked the temple to take them and hold a memorial service ...

This is where the foodie city of Osaka, affectionately ... a nearly 50-foot-tall Great Buddha statue. This UNESCO World Heritage site is part of a sprawling temple complex that encompasses part ...