They were made by the two families of sculptors of Buddhist statues led by Junkei YAMAMOTO of Kyoto and Kenkei TSUBAI of Osaka and it took them more than 30 years; they are representative Buddhist sculptures of the Edo Period.
京都の仏師山本順慶一門と、大坂の仏師椿井賢慶一門らにより、30数年をかけて制作されたもので、江戸時代の代表的な仏教彫刻である。