Kitamido
Rebuilt Buddhist hall on the site of a wartime firebombing, the temple that gave a grand boulevard its name.
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This guide to Kitamido in Osaka opens with a dying merchant's instruction to hold on to his faith, given by Ito Chubei, whose trading houses grew into household names. It then turns to the old rule among Osaka's traders about where a shop could open, within sight of this temple's roof and the sound of its bell, and to one March night in 1945 that tested the temple. Best heard standing at the foot of the stairs, looking up at the hall.
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