2.Statue of 11-Faced Kannon at the Shiroyama Kannondo Temple
Cultural Asset Data
Name | Statue of 11-Faced Kannon at the Shiroyama Kannondo Temple |
Address | 1360 Ko, Yamada, Yamae-mura, Kuma-gun, Kumamoto |
Mapcode | 195 887 218*85 |
Contact | 0966-23-3665 (The Yamae Museum: Its People and Its Past) |
Misc | - |
An 11-faced statue of the Kannon bodhisattva, the Goddess of Mercy. Its construction was ordered by the Sagara clan, who ruled the region during the Sengoku period, and the statue has been carefully preserved by the locals for generation upon generation.