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Okamoto Jinja
The only shrine in Japan to a deity of paper. It stands at the heart of Echizen washi country, and the carving on its halls is superb.
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Okamoto Okumiya
The only shrine in Japan to a deity of paper. The inner shrine sits at the summit of Mount Gongen.
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Echizen Washi
A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.
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Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
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Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
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Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
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Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
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Shrine Carpenters of Echizen
The complex framing and carving seen at Otaki Shrine runs through temples and shrines across the province.
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Murasaki Shikibu Park
Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.