The sculptor is unknown. Up a flight of narrow stone steps is a receptionist booth and all visitors are requested to pay 200 yen here. Hall since the statues of Amida Trinity used to rest in this hall before. As the appearance shows, it looks very old except the copper roof. It was rebuilt in 1668 in an architectural style of Zen Buddhism.
All statues are relatively new, though.
In front of the Main Hall are gigantic trees of podocarp or Podocarpus macrophylla, believed to be more than 750 years old. On the immediate left of the Main Hall is the new Amida Hall, in which one of the most famous and most magnificent Buddha statues in Kamakura is enthroned on a mighty lotus pedestal. Those are made of clay and affixed on the statue's robe with lacquer. To make those ornaments, clay are put into molds which have patterns of flower, leaves and fittings. Those patterned clays are glued on the statue with lacquer.