Todai-ji is a Buddhist temple site in Nara, Japan, home to an amazing bell that I hope to see and hear some day:
These images are from postcards, with the exception of the last, a stereopticon slide, which notes on the back, “No. 670 THE HANGING BELL OF NARA, JAPAN. Near the fine Buddhist temple of Ni-gwatsu-do stands a substantial belfry containing a famous bell, which was cast A.D. 732. Its height is 13 feet 6 inches, greatest diameter 9 feet 1 inch, and greatest thickness at the edge 8.4 inches. Nearly 30 tons of copper and one ton of tin were used in the casting.”
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