Okamoto Otaki

^{Legend
has it that about 1,500 years ago a woman taught people in this area
how to make paper with the natural materials from special plants for
washi called Kozo, because she had sympathy on them since they did
not have any rice fields to make a living.
She
mysteriously disappeared to the upper river, so she was named
"Kawa-kami Gozen", meaning "upriver princess" in
Japanese. Since then, the princess has been enshrined as a paper
goddess in Okamoto Otaki Shrine.}