At the time, the style called Jocho, in which mainly delicacy and elegance were expressed in Buddhist images, prevailed, yet these statues rather express massiveness and realism and do not seem to follow the Jocho style; therefore, it is said that they were indicative of an incoming mode that was becoming dominant during the Kamakura period.
本三尊像の堂々とした量感や写実的な表現は、この当時流行した定朝様（じょうちょうよう）の繊細優美な仏像とは異なった作風を示し、次の鎌倉時代の作風のさきがけをなすといわれる。