XVIII.] STATUES OF BHUDDA. 681 



A similar statue is also to be found at Kamakura, another at 

 Tokio, a third at Nara near Kioto, and so on. Some have of 

 late years been sold for the value of the metal ; one has in this 

 way been brought to London, and is now exhibited in the 

 Kensington Museum. The metal of the statues consists of an 

 alloy of copper with tin and a little gold, the last named 

 constituent giving rise to the report that their value is very 



BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT KOBE. 



considerable. To give an idea of the size of some Daihutsu 

 statues it may be mentioned that the one at Nara is fifty-three 

 and a half feet high, and that one can crawl into the head 

 through the nose orifices. 



Nearly all the Daihutsu images are made after nearly the 

 same design, which has been improved from generation to 

 generation until the countenance of the image has received a 



