Enku: Productivity tricks

Enku's big trick for producing large numbers, to try to get towards the 120,000 which some writers suspect he may have reached, was the invention of koppa butsu, 'splinter Buddhas', often a couple of inches high, which he produced in huge numbers (see upper pic here). They're almost all human figures, so can resemble Anthony Gormley's 'Field', as can the sentai ('thousand') butsu: one piece in a village temple (lower pic here) has one main figure and 1,200 individually carved small (10-12.5 cm) figures, all different (like a miniature Sanjusangen); another group of 1,020 figures was discovered in a box in a temple in the 1970s, each statue from 8-29cm high.