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The cliff sculpture of Maitreya was carved at the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185–1333), in fulfillment of a vow by Gaen, a senior monk at the Kōfukuji temple in Nara.

The rock itself doesn’t look like much, and even the researchers aren’t entirely convinced this is a sculpture. But there’s a ...