The Lotus Miroku corner features seated images of bosatsu (Skt. bodhisattva) with one leg pendant. This imagery of a deity sitting contemplatively in half-lotus position, which came to be worshipped first as Śākyamuni Buddha and later as Avalokiteśvara (J. Kannon) and Maitreya (J. Miroku), was introduced to Japan and became the representative image of Miroku. In the Nara period, this form attracted devotion as Kannon. In the Heian period, bodhisattva statues with this posture came to be associated with the Prince Shōtoku cult and were revered in the form of Nyoirin Kannon. After the Heian period, we see an emergence of Miroku statues with a lotus and two sets of arms, which were considered to symbolize Kannon.