Wooden eleven-faced, thousand-armed Kannon statue (attached) Two cast Amida Nyorai statues (city-designated important tangible cultural property)

Kannon statues like this wooden standing eleven-faced thousand-armed Kannon are the most widely worshipped of bodhisattvas, and there are the standard-form Sho Kannon and the many-faced, many-armed Kannon (with more faces and hands than the human form) that seek to embody a wide variety of merits. This statue is also one of the many-armed Kannon, with eleven faces on its head, two hands clasped together in the center of its chest that match the size of the statue, and twenty slightly smaller hands on each side, two of which are clasped together in the center to hold a treasure bowl. These twenty slightly smaller hands on each side, totaling forty, are each for the salvation of sentient beings in the twenty-five realms of existence in the six realms (the six worlds of suffering: hell, hungry ghosts, animals, asuras, humans, and heaven), and forty and twenty-five together make up the number of thousand hands. There are actually thousand-armed Kannon statues. In addition, the statues at Jikoji Temple include two Amida Nyorai standing statues, each about 10cm tall, which are said to have been placed inside the temple. Both are made of copper and were cast from the same mold. The area around Jikoji Temple, where the wooden Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Kannon standing statue is located, is an area that has been on the stage of history since ancient times, as the ancient Sanyo Road passes through it and the place name Otsuka appears in documents as early as the 13th century as the name of "Great Grave." In addition, according to the legend of the temple, the statue is said to have been made by Kobo Daishi, and it is said that Otsuka Shirobei Yoshikuni, the lord of the nearby Kishi Castle, was inspired by the statue and built the hall that became the temple. From these facts, it is quite possible that this Buddha statue has existed for a long time, and in fact the formation techniques show characteristics from the late Fujiwara period. There are few items made during the Fujiwara period within the city limits of Hiroshima, and there are few examples of Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Kannon, making it a very valuable cultural asset. *The Kannon and Jikoji temple are at different addresses. Date of designation: June 25, 1987 Summary: Made of a single piece of wood, statue height 185cm, pedestal height 14cm Cast Buddha, statue height 9.8cm (including pedestal)