shōrō
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- Subclass of
- Japanese Buddhist architecture
- Has part
- column
- Country
- Japan
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- name in kana
- しゅろう
- Commons category
- Bell towers in Japan
- contains
- bonshō
- revised Hepburn romanization
- shurō
- architectural style
- Japanese Buddhist architecture
- does not have part
- wall
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{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Wooden belltower, old style|x200px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Wooden belltower, new style|x200px |} The two main types of bell tower in Japan
The or is the bell tower of a Buddhist temple in Japan, housing the temple's . It can also be found at some Shinto shrines which used to function as temples (see article Shinbutsu shūgō), as for example Nikkō Tōshō-gū. Two main types exist, the older , which has walls, and the more recent or , which does not.
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