YORO

Hanging Scroll: YORO Waterfall

Yoro waterfall is one of the top hundred best waterfalls in japan and very famous for it's story.

Long ago in the Mino region there lived a poor woodcutter who was very kind and caring toward his elderly father.
One day, when he was in the woods gathering firewood,
he noticed the aroma of sake (rice wine) wafting from around some mossy rocks.
Thinking this odd, he tasted the water that was flowing there and found that it did indeed taste of sake.
Delighted at his discovery, he filled his gourd flask with the liquid and took it home,
where his father also tasted it and confirmed with great joy that it was indeed rice wine of the finest quality.
Before long, news of the woodcutter's windfall had spread to Nara, the ancient capital.
Empress Gensho, who ruled Japan at the time, proclaimed that the gods must have rewarded the woodcutter for his filial piety.
The empress herself then traveled to the spot, bathed in the spring whose waters had turned to sake, and declared:
"This is a miraculous spring, a fountain of youth! I myself have been rejuvenated!"
In commemoration of these auspicious events, that year special awards and Imperial gifts were bestowed on all people aged eighty and over,
dutiful sons and daughters throughout the land were given official commendations in recognition of their filial piety,
and the era was renamed "Yoro," the era of "caring for the aged."

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