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[[Image:Toki-no-kane.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The bell-tower.]]
*''Built: c. [[1624]]-[[1643]]''
*''Japanese'': 時の鐘 ''(toki no kane)''
The ''Toki no Kane'' (lit. simply "bell of time" or "clockbell") is a bell in [[Kawagoe]], [[Saitama prefecture]]; the bell and bell tower is likely the most famous symbol of the city.
A bell in the same style as Japanese Buddhist temple bells, the ''toki no kane'' is said to have been constructed originally in the Kan'ei era (1624-43), under [[Sakai Tadakatsu]], Lord of Kawagoe. The tower is three stories (16.2 m) high, rising up above the ''[[kura]]'' (traditional-style storehouses).
The bell sounds four times a day, at 6am, 12 noon, 3pm, and 6pm, and has been sounding for roughly 350 years. Destroyed in the Great Kawagoe Fire of [[1892]], it was rebuilt the following year.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%B7%9D%E8%B6%8A%E5%B8%82%E6%99%82%E3%81%AE%E9%90%98&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.923489,139.483312&spn=0.004709,0.002961&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.683309,24.257813&t=h&hnear=%E6%99%82%E3%81%AE%E9%90%98+Japan&z=17&iwloc=A Toki no kane on Google Maps]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Built: c. [[1624]]-[[1643]]''
*''Japanese'': 時の鐘 ''(toki no kane)''
The ''Toki no Kane'' (lit. simply "bell of time" or "clockbell") is a bell in [[Kawagoe]], [[Saitama prefecture]]; the bell and bell tower is likely the most famous symbol of the city.
A bell in the same style as Japanese Buddhist temple bells, the ''toki no kane'' is said to have been constructed originally in the Kan'ei era (1624-43), under [[Sakai Tadakatsu]], Lord of Kawagoe. The tower is three stories (16.2 m) high, rising up above the ''[[kura]]'' (traditional-style storehouses).
The bell sounds four times a day, at 6am, 12 noon, 3pm, and 6pm, and has been sounding for roughly 350 years. Destroyed in the Great Kawagoe Fire of [[1892]], it was rebuilt the following year.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%B7%9D%E8%B6%8A%E5%B8%82%E6%99%82%E3%81%AE%E9%90%98&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.923489,139.483312&spn=0.004709,0.002961&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.683309,24.257813&t=h&hnear=%E6%99%82%E3%81%AE%E9%90%98+Japan&z=17&iwloc=A Toki no kane on Google Maps]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
