User:Folifesyao/Kannami's Kodama Stone

"Kannami no Kodamaishi" is one of the Seven Wonders of Izu, a legend that has been passed down since the Edo period (1603-1868) about a large rock in the mountains of Hirai, Kannami-cho, Tagata-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture. Once upon a time, in the village of Hirai, there lived a mother called Oro and her son Yoichi.

She was a widow and very poor, but one day a monk from the village temple advised her to go over the pass to Atami to do business.

In the middle of the pass there is a big rock where parents and children often rest and talk.

Just as the mother and son were getting on with their lives, the mother fell ill and never returned.

In the midst of his grief, Yoichi went to the big rock where he had talked with his mother and called out to her as best he could, and from the bottom of the rock he heard her old voice saying, "Yoichi, Yoichi.

The villagers were so moved by Yoichi's nostalgia for his mother's voice that they began to call the rock "Kodamaishi".

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35.091561, 139.001851