Recorded Joy·Rakuchū / Gosho-minami

Site of Shoshoi (Shoshoi Otabisho)

The vanished Shoshoi well was celebrated in The Pillow Book, a classic of court literature, and is said to have stood at the home of a woman poet. A festival shrine is also said to have been placed over its curb to ward off epidemics, yet no trace of the well remains above ground today.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.