Usa, a city in modern Oita ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan, begins to develop around the site of the first and most famous of shrines dedicated to the Shinto god Hachiman, Usa Hachiman Shrine, which dates to about 717–724.
"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."
— George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1906)
