chinsho sunken bell legends

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chinshoo 沈鐘 Chinsho, sunken bell legends
eine versunkene Tempelglocke

parts of a bonshoo 梵鐘 temple bell


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. kane 鐘 bell, temple bell .
bonshoo 梵鐘 temple bell
hanging temple bell, tsurigane 釣鐘
"crocodile's mouth", waniguchi 鰐口
bronze bell, dootaku 銅鐸
small bell, suzu　鈴

. kane 鐘と伝説 Legends about the temple bell .

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....................................................................... Fukuoka 福岡県 　
宗像市 Munakata city

Around 1600, 黒田長政 Kuroda Nagamasa was the first to pull the sunken bell out, but could not.
Later they tried again, but when they had pulled it out just a bit, there came a typhoon and the boat was crashed.
Another time they pulled it out until the ryuuto 龍頭 dragon head could be seen,
but then came a huge wave and smashed the village and the fields around.
At 鐘ケ崎 Kanegasaki (鐘崎 Kanzaki) on a fine day, pepole can see the sunken temple bell on the ocean floor.




....................................................................... Niigata 　
柏崎市 Kashiwazaki city

. The temple bell from 西光寺 Saiko-Ji .




....................................................................... Nagano　長野県 　
南佐久郡 Minami-Saku district / Matsubara Suwa Shrine 松原諏訪神社

At the riverpool 七曲りの渕 Nanamagari no fuchi there was a sunken bell and the villagers could not pull it out.
One villager mumbled: "If we ever get it out, we should give it to 松原の諏訪様 the Suwa Shrine at Matsubara."
Now all of a sudden they could pull it out and even now it is at the Suwa shrine at Matsubara.
. Suwa Shrine Legends .

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Nagano 下伊那郡 Shimo-Ina district 天竜村 Tenryu village

. amagoi 雨乞いと伝説 Legends about rain rituals / Regenzauber .
The sunken bell at 釣鐘渕 the river pool Tsuriganefuchi had be pulled out and given to the local temple.
Since then there had been hideri 日照り a drought and the fields all dried up.
The villagers brought the bell back to the riverpool and performed a rain ritual.
It started to rain very soon.

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Nagano 下高井郡 Shimo-Takai district

The temple bell from 大照寺 Daisho-Ji was groaning one evening and then fell into the river.
The priest had a new bell made, but it also groaned and fell into the river.
Since then, the temple does not have a bell any more.




....................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県 　
Shiga 大津市 Otsu city 園城寺町 Onjoji town

. Musashiboo Benkei 武蔵坊弁慶 (? - 1189) .
三井寺 - 弁慶の引摺り鐘 the Benkei temple bell at Miidera

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The temple bell, Benkei no hikitsuirgane, which was manufactured during the Nara period, is said to have been donated to the Mii-dera temple as an expression of gratitude to Fujiwara no Hidesato for the Extermination of the Centipede (“Mukade Taiji”, a legendary episode) living on mount Mikamiyama.
The bell is also said to have been brought back from Ryu-gu, the underwater Palace of the Dragon King.
In the tenth century, during the succession disputes which broke out between Tendai monks, Benkei (a warrior monk, popular subject of Japanese folklore) took the bell away and dragged it up to the summit of mount Hiei. There, he tried to strike it and got mad when he heard it ringing “eeno eeno”, which means “I want to go back” in the Kansai dialect.
Benkei then threw the bell down to the bottom of the valley.
The scars and cracks which can be seen on the bell are said to be traces of this episode.
- source : shiga-miidera.or.jp ... -

. Mii Temple 三井寺 　Miidera, Mii-dera .
The sound of the bell at this temple has been admired for its beauty in literature since ancient times.
In the Edo period the "Evening Bell from the Temple of Mii" was counted as one of the "Eight Views of Omi".




....................................................................... Tokyo 　
町田市 Machida city

chinshoo 沈鐘 the sunken temple bell
Once the temple bell from the 大日堂 Dainichi-Do hall had fallen down and nobody could find it - it had simple disappeared.
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There was a bell at Ropponmatsu 六本松 "Six Pine Trees", but the local fishermen said it was disturbing and asked the officials to take it down. But it was not allowed. So the fishermen took it away secretely at night and threw it into a deep valley.
Later they could not find it any more, however much they searched.
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Another bell had been thrown into a well and all the villagers wanted to pull it out again.
But every time when the bell was almost out, the thick rope ruptured and the bell fell back into the well.
Eventually they burried the well and made a memorial mound out of it.


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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

沈鐘伝説についての一考案 / 有馬英子

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