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Yoro Falls
A single white ribbon of water threads its way down through dark foliage. Yoro Falls, in Mino Province, is the setting of an old tale of a devoted son.
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The era name was changed to Yoro because Empress Gensho, visiting Mino Province in 717, saw a beautiful spring on Mount Tado. Whether that spring was Yoro Falls or the spring water at what is now Yoro Shrine is still debated. Another story tells of a poor woodcutter who found water smelling of sake near the falls and gave it to his elderly father, who then grew young again.
Down at the bottom of the falls, the white water stops in a sharp horizontal line, and below it everything sinks into shadow.
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- Source title
- 『日本名勝写真帖』（明治31年10月）
- Held by
- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- Taken
- 128+ years ago
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