. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. is on a smaller,the city of temples, holding within its circuit twenty-five hundredShinto shrines, and thirty-five hundred temples dedicated to Buddha. The bronze Buddha of Kamakura, the finest work of its kind in Japan,has been described, but here in Kyoto is to bo seen the largest inia-e of ^^la 1^77--^:.^^^ r . .«ip mn^ ; ?^*—?-?%*, ^p 3 - _ ^^m^: ^ ymBM Ui to 1 i - ?—^ — . .* \IKW NKAI! KV(iH>. that god, though it is made of wood and co
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. is on a smaller,the city of temples, holding within its circuit twenty-five hundredShinto shrines, and thirty-five hundred temples dedicated to Buddha. The bronze Buddha of Kamakura, the finest work of its kind in Japan,has been described, but here in Kyoto is to bo seen the largest inia-e of ^^la 1^77--^:.^^^ r . .«ip mn^ ; ?^*—?-?%*, ^p 3 - _ ^^m^: ^ ymBM Ui to 1 i - ?—^ — . .* \IKW NKAI! KV(iH>. that god, though it is made of wood and consists of head and shouldersonly. But these parts are of sui-h enormous dimensions that the topreaches into the temple loft. The image is gilded, and made hollow,numerous beams and cross-timbers keeping it in position. Formerly abronze statue occupied the place, but both tire and earthquake seemed tohave especial gnldges against it. In 1G62 the temple and its sacredcontents were piled ^jromiscuously upon the earth. lemitsu was thereigning shogiin at that time, and his treasury being low, he seized upon Bridge at Arashiyama. JAPAN. 475 the opportunity to fuse the bronze into coins, some of which are incirculation to-day. Located in a buildmg near b}- is an object of greater interest to thegeneral visitor, the ponderous bell made of bronze and weighing oversixty-three tons. Its walls are nine inches in thickness, and it has aheight of almost fourteen feet. This is larger than the Ta-shung-szu inPekin, which has been considered the largest suspended bell in theworld. As mighty as this bell appears, it has a companion that outrivals broad avenue lined with cherry-trees leads to the temple of Chion-in,standing upon a hill in eastern Kyoto. This edifice was erected in 1211A. D., by a sort of wandering priest, who had organised a new creedknown as the Road to the Pvire Land. This temple is the principal monastery of the sect. The edifices of thisreligious order, now called
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