horio

Updated: May 9, 2025

When Horio Yoshiharu, the great general who became daimyo of Izumo in the Keicho era, first undertook to put a bridge over the mouth of this river, the builders laboured in vain; for there appeared to be no solid bottom for the pillars of the bridge to rest upon.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series