Echizen
Echizen Washi
A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.
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A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.
Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.
The complex framing and carving seen at Otaki Shrine runs through temples and shrines across the province.
Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.