18.spiritual water “Kame-no-mizu” Old Japanese believed that a tortoise can live for ten thousand years.

Hitomaru

When they built the west approach of Kakinomoto Shrine in 1621, they installed water supply on the washbasin and called it “Kame-no-mizu or water of a tortoise” according to one report.  “Kame-no-mizu” is known as the water for long life.  They carved the following sentence on the washbasin “In Kyoho 4, the year of 1719, the donation from Iizuka Nobumasa in Hitachi, present Ibaraki Prefecture”.

Akashi heritage-map “Hitomaru” 2018

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