Bell promotion

…As with the fundraising for statues and temples, the document was called a “Kanjincho” (a book of reasons for the bell), and the merits of casting the bell were to be trumpeted and donations were solicited from individuals and villages. However, since the Muromachi period, it has become common for wandering monks to claim to be bell-raisers, claiming to be temples in distant lands and seeking donations for bells that they have not even cast. There are legends about temple bells in various places, and many of them have been incorporated into Noh songs, Kabuki, and Joruri. …

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "Kane Kanjin" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…仏像や堂宇の勧進と同様，その趣意書を〈勧進帳〉といい，鋳鐘の功徳を吹聴（ふいちよう）して個人や村ごとの奉加喜捨を仰いだ。しかし室町時代以降，流浪する売僧が鐘勧進を称し，遠国の寺号を名乗って鋳造もしない鐘への勧進を求めることがしばしば行われている。　梵鐘をめぐる伝説は各地に分布し，数多くが謡曲や歌舞伎，浄瑠璃などにとり入れられている。…

※「鐘勧進」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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