Month: January 2020

Okamoto Shrine, where the god of paper is enshrined and which has the most complex roof of all Japanese shrines

November/23/2019

I’d like to write about the legend of Echizen washi and Okamoto Shrine . (If you don’t know about Echizen Washi, please visit my previous post.(Echizen Washi has a 1,500-year history and is still evolving))

“This story is from about 1,500 years ago.

There was a village, which is now the city of Echizen, among some mountains. The village didn’t have many rice or vegetable fields, so the people there couldn’t make ends meet. read more