Just unveiled: Japan’s largest wooden seated statue of Fudomyoo "See it and then die."

The consecration ceremony of the Japan’s largest wooden seated statue of Fudomyoo was held at Fukagawa Fudoson temple on Sept. 15.

The statue uses over 500-year-old camphor trees in Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan. It gives off a good sacred smell of camphor because the statue totally shows its bare wood surface without any lacquer coating. 

It's a great work by one of Japan's most acclaimed sculptors of Buddha statues. He gave 5 years to his work. He expended so much energy on the work that he had lost some 30 kilograms (66 lbs.) of body weight when he completed it.  He must have accomplished the work at the risk of his life.

The seated statue is 3.2 meters (10.4 ft.) high and weighs about 1.5 tons (3300 lbs.).  If the statue rises to its feet, it may be over 5 meters high.