Artist Inamura Yoneiji took six years to construct this huge effigy of the god, Buddha from the bodies of dead insects. He says of the edifice, buiilt in the Gunma area of the country, “For children in the years immediately after World War II, Japan was poor and there was little entertainment available, aside from catching bugs. However, every bug would eventually die after being caught. By making a statue of a Buddha from their dead bodies, perhaps their souls can rest in peace.”