Kyoto—Chion-in Temple

“If I were a good Buddhist I should say a prayer or two to the Chionin’s great bell, an inverted cup of bronze eighteen feet in height, breathing music so sweet that it thrills the listener, and ringing so seldom that no one willingly misses its voice.”

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Jinrikisha Days in Japan, (New York, 1891) p. 235