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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 377142, member: 54&quot;]Sniped by AJ!</p><p><br /></p><p>Agree with depiction of Benkei.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture and description under “notable examples” here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshō" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshō" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshō</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have one of these bells here-was captured by a US Army Officer at end of WWII.&nbsp; Outside designs differ but same idea.&nbsp; A Japanese neighbor translated some text on it and said it was made for the dai-ringi temple, and was donated by four people whose names are cast into the bell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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