Below the river terrace that spread in the city area of Katsuyama were once dotted with many spots where clean underground water gushed out. This water comes from river water and rainwater on the river terrace surface. Then it infiltrates underground and is changed into subsoil water, which ends up gushing out on the ground as spring water. Now this spot called Oshozu is the only place where clean water gushes out. We can still feel elegant atmosphere of the castle town from the stone wall surrounding this spring built by piling up river stones and a statue of Fudoson (a statue of Fudo) enshrined in 1895 by the local people who felt grateful to abundant water gushing out of this spring.

PeriodThe Edo period (the19th century)