Let's play Attention to Detail! We give you a close-up clue and you have to figure out where you've seen it around Boston. So where have you seen this logophonetic lettering?
Here are some hints:
- This object is more than 340 years old.
- It was found in a scrap pile and brought to Boston.
- Years later the original owner declined taking it back and gave it to the City of Boston.
- Today is stands as a symbol of peace.
- It is in a Boston park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
Here's another clue to jog your memory.
Ready? Click through or scroll down past this great book about Boston for the answer.
- The logophonetic lettering in the top photo is on the Japanese Temple Bell in the Fenway.
- This bell was cast in 1675.
- It was salvaged from a scrap pile by American sailors after WWII and given to the City of Boston.
- At a time when works of art were being returned to their homelands, representative of Manpukuji Temple, Sendai Japan, presented the bell to Boston, “... in order to create close friendship between the citizens of Boston and the citizens of Sendai as a link for the attainment of peace in the world,” according to the notes on Waymarking.com.
- The Smithsonian Institution's record on this public art objects credits Suzuki Magoemon as the sculptor and Tanaka Gonzaemon as the caster of the bell.
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