The board said the statue was made during the Edo Period (1603-1867) and is the biggest wooden statue of Hideyoshi (1537-1598) ever discovered in the country, except for those created in the ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...