According to the archivist who calls himself Okinawa Soba, this bridge was made of two ancient and thick wisteria vines growing on either side of the river and woven together. “The vines form the net across which the narrow central planking has been laid, and on which the people are walking…. The bridge … was so wobbly that when the uninitiated started to cross, and the bridge started bouncing and swinging, the people would freeze in fear!… In 1918 … a regiment of Imperial Soldiers of the 60th Infantry decided to cross it one day. It snapped in the middle, plunging all on the bridge into the river below. Seven soldiers drowned.”
The Fujikawa River flows in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures in central Japan.
