Talk:Ushiku Daibutsu

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[edit] World's tallest?

This article claims that the Ushiku Daibutsu is the largest Buddha statue in the world. However the "See Also" section lists the Nara Daibutsu as the tallest in Japan, and the Kamakura Daibutsu as the second tallest in the country. I'll look into finding a proper list of rankings but if anyone else knows, please edit. Smoove K 03:35, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the Nara & Kamakura Buddhas were the largest bronze Buddhas in the country (the Ushiku one is stone), but, being that they are both seated Buddhas, and the Ushiku Daibutsu stands almost 30 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty, I find it difficult to believe that it would not be the tallest Buddha in the world. Keep in mind also that the Nara Buddha is indoors, and the Kamakura Buddha was at one time too. They may be large, but neither come anywhere close to the height of the Ushiku Daibutsu. Perhaps some rewording needs to be done on these articles... LordAmeth 11:58, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I've lived near/visited all of them and I know that Ushiku is the tallest by far. Since "being large" is the important factor rather than the shape of the statue, I'll add "bronze" to the descriptions of Nara and Kamakura. This seems like a safe correction. Smoove K 07:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Need Picture

Need picture.

[edit] A better picture

Is there a better picture? The view over a wall/roof and the forground greenery make the statue look small (my first impression was a statue around 10m tall). A better picture, perhaps with tourists gathered around the plinth, could convey the impression of size. Astronaut 13:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

It's completely idiotic to have a photo of something noted for its size and then not have anything in the photo to convey any idea of scale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.179.223 (talk) 05:35, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

The japanese version has a better picture here, but it is flagged {{oldimage}}. As far as I can tell, it was uploaded during 2004, before the current image licensing rules. The uploader has since gone inactive. It says "do not upload to Commons", but can we copy it here to English Wikipedia? Astronaut 22:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I just did a search at http://www.google.co.jp/ for images using the statue's name in Japanese (牛久大仏) and found hundreds of pictures better than the current one. I'm sure someone who reads Japanese, could easily locate a better picture with free/fair-use licensing that we could use on Wikipedia.

Before you suggest I do it, I don't read Japanese. But I do have the font pack installed, so it makes it easy to guess which field or button use if the page layout is the same, and it makes it easy to copy Japanese text as well. Other than that though, I'm completely lost.

Astronaut 22:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Much better :-) Astronaut (talk) 08:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)