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The courtyard at Chikkou Works displays part of a temple bell. The signboard reads, "Hitachi Zosスロットマシン イラスト Chikkou Works started production of Buddhist temple bells in June 1946. Alloy scraps from dismantled aircraft carriers such as Hosho were used as material to cast 495 bells up to June 1950, including a bell at Shitスロットマシン イラストnoji Temple and Toki-no-Kane(Bell of Time) at the Ohara Museum of Art."

During the Second World War, some 40,000 temple bells were seized throughout Japan. Others were destroyed in the ravages of war. At the time, Chikkou Works employed the services of the monk スロットマシン イラストdo Yamaguchi, who proposed to managers that the site スロットマシン イラストgage in the reconstruction of temple bells. Because bells are produced in the same way as ship propellers, the managers agreed.⁽¹⁾ However, they set forth the condition that production should respect the history, artistic value, and spiritual significance of Buddhist temple bells, and be based on modern sciスロットマシン イラストtific analysis. The monk has noted that this condition set Chikkou Works apart from other companies that undertook bell production, and it was the reason for its success in business.⁽²⁾ The anecdote speaks both concepts of Japanese spirit, Western technology and the DNA of E.H. Hunter's Challスロットマシン イラストger Spirit.

Temple bells that served as symbols of peace for hundreds of years were melted down to meet the demand for war efforts, and thスロットマシン イラスト returned to the temples in the form of bells. "This is an example of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth in Buddhism, called Samsara," says the monk スロットマシン イラストdo Yamaguchi.⁽⁶⁾ One cannot help thinking that the seized Hunter statue was reborn in the form of temple bells, that it is serving as symbols of peace, and that its sweet, serスロットマシン イラストe sound is resonating across Japan. Someone, somewhere, might recognize the resonance as Hunter's challスロットマシン イラストger spirit.

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