The great Buddhist sculptor Unkei traveled east from Nara to the Kantō region to create this masterpiece. Amida Nyorai, the Buddha of the Western Pure Land, is flanked by two attendant bodhisattvas: ...

In the Pure Land school of Buddhism, Amida Buddha is the focus of worship. Pictured here is the raigō, or the moment when Amida descends with his retinue to welcome a dying person into his Pure Land, ...

Shiramizu Amida-do Temple in Iwaki City is the only national treasure of Fukushima Prefecture. This Buddhist temple from the Heian period is especially enjoyable in summer when the garden is full of ...

Uji in the south of Kyoto Prefecture has been an important cultural center for centuries. In the Heian period (794–1185) it was the site of rural villas belonging to nobles, and it also features in ...