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For centuries, the bell at Sensoji marked the time of day for a wide area in downtown Edo. I took this photograph.
A plaque in the vicinity states that the poet Matsuo Basho wrote a haiku: "Sounding through clouds of flower -- is it the bell in Ueno or Asakusa?"