Do you mechanically ring the bell when you visit a temple? If so, you may not know the spiritual significance behind it.

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 ...

I am so happy the bell is back here safe and sound.” In a prelude to its return, a letter arrived in 1993 from the head priest of Ikakuji temple in the town of Togi, Ishikawa Prefecture.