Features of Zao Gongen statues are similar to those of Myo (warlike and wrathful deities) statues of Esoteric Buddhism, and they usually show Funnu-so (an angry expression, boiling with anger), lifting the right hand and right leg high up and putting the left hand on the hip.
蔵王権現の像容は密教の明王像と類似しており、激しい忿怒相で、怒髪天を衝き、右手と右脚を高く上げ、左手は腰に当てるのを通例とする。