Kanetsuki Hall Bell Tower, Okayama (Okayama no Kanetsukido)

Kanetsuki Bell Tower at Okayama, published in 1947, depicts the kanetsukido — the bell tower housing the large bronze temple bell — at one of Okayama's Buddhist temples, likely within the grounds of Sogenji or a similar historic temple in the castle town's precincts. The bell tower subject, with its ancient bronze bell hanging in a timber belfry frame, represents one of the most acoustically and visually evocative elements of Japanese Buddhist architecture, the large bell's patinated surface and the surrounding wooden structure carrying centuries of accumulated use. Hasui's 1947 composition likely captures the tower in the quiet morning or evening light associated with temple bell subjects.