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​Bell tower

明達寺鐘突き堂。
明達寺鐘突き堂。
明達寺梵鐘。
明達寺鐘突き堂、梵鐘。

 The bell of Myoutatsuji was founded at 1934, when Haya Akgarasu held a big memorial service for all the Buddhist techers, that he thanks to. Into the bell, bronze was casted with the letters of his four Tanka poems. Translated one is on south-east side of the bell.

  The sound of the bell reached widely, told the time for the working farmers in old days. Now the bell,  so big for an ordinary temple, is rung out the old year in ceremony, by many people in the neighborhood.

                                 Haya

   Live or dead

   in twist and wind

   everlasting,

   the water of life

   wills flowing always.

Translated by T.A.

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