Experience the fascinating process of crafting temple bells using the traditional bronze casting method. Skilled artisans carefully blend metals, create intricate molds, and pour molten bronze to ...

In hindsight, it could be said that these were the bells that tolled for no one. “The temple bell provision had previously been outlined in individual local historical records but it is the ...

KYOTO--Priests at Chion-in temple here tolled a 70-ton bell, said to be one of Japan’s three largest temple bells, in a dry run to ring out a year overshadowed by wars overseas. The Dec. 27 ...