New Bells with an Age-old Sound: Oigo Seisakusho

Some of the bells on display at the Oigo Seisakusho entrance hall.

One of the Hiroshima “Peace Bells” (photograph courtesy of Oigo Seisakusho).

Copper and tin are melted in a gas-fired furnace and poured into a mold to create a bell.

An Oigo Seisakusho employee works on a bell that has been removed from its mold; behind him another employee is working on a statue.

The 25-ton bell provided for a temple in Taipei (left); the 48-ton bell delivered to a temple in Hyōgo Prefecture (photographs courtesy of Oigo Seisakusho).

The “Reconstruction Bell” in Kamaishi (left) and the “Requiem Bell of Love” in Ōfunato (both photographs courtesy of Oigo Seisakusho).