Echizen Washi
A beautiful goddess has appeared to the villagers who live in poverty because they are not suitable for farmland. The goddess said, "This village is located between mountains and there are few fields, making it difficult to live in. However, there are plenty of rivers and mountains with clean water. If you work with papermaking, your life will be easier." When asked by a delighted villager for her name, she only replied "I live upstream on the Okamoto River" and went away.  The villagers worshiped the goddess as "Kawakami Gozen(literally "the lady of the upper reaches")" and built a shrine. Otaki Shrine remains in Echizen City as the only shrine in Japan that enshrines the goddess of paper.