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Stone Buddhist Images at Kanaya
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at Sakurai city, Nara Pref.
Images of Shakyamuni Tathagata and Maitreya bodhisattva are carved in relief on a shale rock with a height of 2 m and a width of 79 cm. These images are said to have been created between the late Heian Period and the Kamakura Period. Designated important cultural properties.


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