Myoun
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Myoun The jizo thing was started by a monk called Myoun, who became the chief priest of the temple in 1876.
He was originally from Osaka, and at the age of 25, while living as a hermit at a temple in Nikko, he came have great faith in Jizo.
He started out with the idea of making a thousand jizo statues, but when they were finished, he started thinking big and decided to go for 84,000.
The temple and some sites that I checked seem to indicate that there really are 84,000 jizo statues there, but there clearly aren’t.
Source
https://qjphotos.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/jomyo-in-the-jizo-temple/