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Statue of the monk Dengyo Daishi erected in 1937 in commemoration of the 1150th anniversary of the construction of the temple Enryaku on the Mount Hiei near Kyoto. Dengyo Daishi is the founder of Tendai Buddhism in Japan in the 9th century.