National Bell Festival Breaks Ground on Japanese Shōrō
A misty autumnal rain left no damper on the spirits this weekend as the National Bell Festival broke ground at the U.S. National Arboretum on a new Japanese structure for the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. Called a shōrō, the roofed but wall-less structure will offer protection to a sacred Japanese temple bell, called a hanshō, that was cast in 1798.