Long ago, the place known as Kameoka was deep, at the bottom of a lake. The gods elected to build a country here, and so they cleared mountains and flushed the lake water in the direction of Kyoto.

Uketa Shrine was built at the place where the mountains were first carved. In Japan, legends exist as representations of history. The shrine’s name is also a hint to its history. The evidence is in the fact that the Hozugawa River’s genuinely swift rapids begin at this point.