Lot 4 Dα

A bronze temple bell. Dated 1862

The body subdivided into four panels, the upper panels each with sixteen studs, three of lower panels with an inscription, in one of them the date Bunkyû 2 (1862), 8th month, in another panel the name of the bronze caster (yakô) Mizuno Heizô Fujiwara Chikayoshi and in the third oanel the name Oriya Kyûuemon aus Shimôsa ...e-mura Shinmachi.
Height 43.5 cm