These images have standardized appearances as the image for worshipping and their common characteristics are that they have slanted-eyed, severe facial expressions while holding juzu (beadroll), and tokkosho (a pestle with a single sharp blade at each end, found as an attribute of Buddhist guardian figures, and a symbolic item in Esoteric Buddhism) (a kind of Buddhist tool) in the hands.
これらの像はいずれも礼拝像として定型化した表現を示しており、やや吊り目で厳しい表情で、手には数珠と独鈷杵（とっこしょ、仏具の一種）を持つのが特色である。