It is a statue carved from a single tree trunk in the late Heian period, which is placed in the black lacquered zushi (a cupboard-like case with double doors in which an image of [the] Buddha, a sutra, or some other revered object is kept at a temple) as the principal statue of the main hall.
本堂の本尊として黒漆厨子に安置されている平安後期の一木造の像である。