Chinda Falls

[1] As early as the fifteenth century the falls provided a subject for ink wash painting and they feature in the 1803 Chorography of Bungo (豊後国志).

[3] In the 1990s, with the dam itself at risk, reinforcement work was carried out by Kyushu Electric Power Company, as well as ancillary landscaping.

[5] Sesshū was inspired by the waterfall to paint Chinda Falls (鎮田瀑図).

Although this work was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake, a copy by Kanō Tsunenobu survives at the Kyoto National Museum.

[6][7] As part of the efforts to revitalise the area through promotion of its heritage, in late October each year, at the end of the rice harvest, a Sesshū Festival is staged.