Yaemon HIGASHIYAMA has usually been seen as the originator of Najio paper manufacturing by local residents, and a monument to honor his contribution as the originator of paper-makers (a monument to the originator of paper-making) was built by his colleagues in 1855.
地元では名塩紙業の始祖として東山弥右衛門が定着しており、安政2年（1855年）に、漉屋仲間がその徳を讃えて建てた紙職元祖碑がある。