Echizen Washi

There are lots of legends here about the 26th Japanese emperor. His name was Emperor Keitai and he became an emperor in 507 until 531. At that time, lots of Koreans came to Japan, especially around this area because of the geographic background, and they started their crafts jobs like iron, lacquerware and WASHI, Japanese paper.

Every time I go up to the mountains near here and look down around the scenery, my imagination starts growing. Towns keep changing but mountains or nature hardly do, so it is almost sure that the location of the mountains or fields have been just the same with the old times. 

One of the legend is at a mountain called Mt.Sanli. It's just as if I were in the past time. 

( the first pic: You can see Mt.Hino )