Celestial Clean: Japanese Duo Spruce Up World's Tallest Bronze Buddha

Each coil of curly hair on the giant Buddha statue is one metre wide (Credit: AFP)

Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday to help it look its gleaming best.

Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument, which soars skywards over Ushiku city, northeast of Tokyo.