The Amida-do(Amida Hall)

The central image is a seated Amida Buddha(Amitabha) 2.8 meters tall. Commissioned by Minamoto Yorimoto(1147-1199, the first Kamakura shogun), to avert the dangers of his forty-second, unlucky year, this image was originally enshrined in the temple Seigan-ji in the village of Hase. It is said to have been moved to Hase-dera in the late seventeenth century. Known popularly as the "Good-luck Amida", it is one of Kamakura's six principle statues of Amida.