This statue has been called a Nyoirin Kannon statue since ancient times, but the name at the time of being shaped is not clear so that it is highly possible that it was made as a statue of Miroku Bosatsu, Maitreya Bodhisattva.
この像は古来如意輪観音像と称されているが、造像当初の尊名は明らかでなく、弥勒菩薩像として造られた可能性が高い。