It is the stone statues of Jizo used to build the castle wall when Hisahide MATSUNAGA, a Sengoku busho (a Japanese military commander in the Sengoku period), built Tamon-jo Castle in 1558; the number of the statues in total is as many as about 1900.
戦国武将・松永久秀が永禄元年（1558年）に多聞城を築城する際、その城壁に用いた地蔵石像で、その数は約1,900体に及ぶ。