Large and lovely hand-carved statue depicting Amida Buddha sitting atop a lotus flower. Amida is one of the loftiest savior figures in Japanese Buddhism, and Amida faith is concerned primarily with the life to come (paradise).

Amida is the central deity of Japan's popular Pure Land Sects, the "consoler" of beings, and Lord of the Pure Land of Utmost Bliss, where Amida leads followers after their death