Built near the falls, the teahouse provided meals and rudimentary shelter for hikers and trail riders. |
Today, the restored teahouse once again plays host to tea-party fund-raisers, cookouts with friends, and children's parties. |
A scroll of the period shows Okuni as a young, fashionably dressed samurai, indolently leaning on a sword, dallying with a teahouse girl. |
Initially, it didn't lead anywhere, but in the '50s trails were developed on the west side and the teahouse became a gift shop. |
But thanks to an unknown teahouse owner's creative imagination, it was rolled between a bannock and eaten like a crispy sandwich. |
He has built the world's tallest flagpole and is soon to open its biggest teahouse. |