At Tokyo National Museum, they has been holding the exhibiton of Enku’s carving wooden statues of Buddha. He was born in Edo period (1632-1695). He traveled on foot around Japan, and carved about 120,000 wooden Buddha’s statues. Now we can find about 5350 statues. I think his statues have a simple yet powerful charm.
I wish I could read Japanese, very interesting 🙂
It is Enku’s English explanation at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enk%C5%AB