【葛飾区指定有形文化財 | Katsushika City-designated tangible cultural properties】

江戸時代、亀有の井戸水は水質が悪く、どこの水も濁っていました。このことを憂いた幕府鳥見役人の水谷又助 は、山崎玄恵という老人に支持を仰ぎ、文化2年(1805)の正月に鳥見屋敷内にそのまま飲めるきれいな水が出る井戸を掘り当てました。この水は村の約40カ所に供給され、以後100年以上に渡り亀有に住む人たちの飲み水となりました。井戸は山崎玄恵の名をとって「玄恵井」とよばれるようになりましたました。村人の感謝の印として、水をほりあてた日から8年目の1813年の正月に、亀有香取神社の境内に石碑「玄恵井の碑」を建てました。

During the Edo period, the quality of well water in Kameari was poor, and any water everywhere was muddy. Matasuke Mizutani, official of the Edo Shogunate, was worried about it, and sought a well with the support of an old man named Genkei Yamazaki. He found the well in the Torimi estate in the New Year of Bunka 2 (1805) and its supplied clean water could be drunk as it was. This water was supplied to about 40 villages has been the drinking water for people living in Kameari for over 100 years. The well has come to be called "Genkei-i" (Genkei's well) after his name the name of Genkei Yamazaki. As a gratitude from the villagers, the stone monument "Genkei-i Monument" was built in the precincts of Kameari Katori Jinja on New Year of 1813, the eighth year since the well was founded.