Colored glass slide photo. From the collection of Japanese images of James A. B. Scherer. He was the president of the Throop College of Technology (former name of the California Institute of ...

Photo: Getty Images/John W Banagan Japan: The Great Buddha of Kamakura Japan, Kamakura Prefecture: the Great Buddha ('Daibutsu') is one of Japan's most celebrated Buddhist figures. The 40-foot ...

Finally, no discussion of Kamakura’s plum blossoms would be complete without mentioning the temple of Hasedera, located near the famous Great Buddha of Kamakura. Around 40 plum varieties bloom ...

The city of Kamakura is one of Japan’s ancient capitals ... Throughout it all, the great Buddha remained standing. Take a good long look at the statue during your visit, but don't bother ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... four meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.