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Akiko Yosano's Tanka Memorial

Last Update:2008/4/1

 In 1944, when Akiko Yosano was visiting the Sanjo native, Matsugoroh Hirokawa (yarn dye-designer), she composed the following tanka poem when she was emotionally moved by the view of the sunset over the Shinano River from the estuary of the Ikarashi River.

"くろ雲と越の大河の中に阿里珊瑚の枝に似たる夕映"
"Kurukumoto, Koshino taigano, nakani ari. Sangono edani, nitaru yuubae."

Black clouds and the great river of the Hokuriku region is home. And branches resemble coral in the evevning glow.
Where: Zuiun bridge, upstream river-right, Rokuchome Kasen Park, Honcho, Sanjo
Access: Train:  10min walk from Kita-Sanjo station on the JR Yahiko-line.
Vehicle:  Approximately a 5min drive from the Sanjo-Tsubame Inter-Change (Hokuriku Expressway).
map to location (in Japanese)

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