Kimbei Kusakabe, Q23rd Kamakura Daibutsu, albumin paper, black and white positive process, hand colored, image size: height: 21.40 cm; width: 24.00 cm, titled: recto u. li.: Q23rd Kamakura Daibutsu, inscribed: recto o. r.: printed in blue: 48, in lead: publ. Spielmann 84, p. 98, travel photography, cult places and cult objects (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism), The Buddhist sculpture and especially the Daibutsu, the Great Buddha, is one of the most popular motifs in Japanese travel photography. The size of the statue alone must have impressed the traveler from the West: the bronze sculpture, which the then ruler Hojo Yasutoki had made in the 13th century for Kamakura, 50 kilometers south of Tokyo, measures 13.35 meters. (Aya Fujita)