Willow-Healing Kami

The Willow-Healing Kami was the kodama of a willow located in a tiny island, just an outcropping, near Clear Water Village.

Shrine
Clear Water Village was once a tiny speck, a minor fishing settlement at the mouth of the River of Gold, overlooking Earthquake Fish Bay. During the second century, Ekibyōgami, the Fortune of Pestilence, made its displeasure with the village known. A terrible plague swept through the settlement, and even the the fish seemed affected by the disease. When the spirit's daily visitor, a young girl who often played around its boughs, caught the disease and came close to death, the Willow-Healing Kami approached the Fortune alone and bargained for the people's lives. When the disease miraculously vanished, the willow's once-strong boughs sagged, the bark became grey and soft, and its lush green left turned pale white. The locals venerated the willow since then. A blessed kobune ship, decorated with paper streamers and a torii arch, was maintained to reach the island and considered by many to be a part of the Shrine of the Willow-Healing Kami, little more than a stone lantern at the foot of a dappled willow.