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Basho’s route led across the Mogami River. When he crossed in July 1689, the river was swollen with rainwater and running dangerously fast. After his “perilous” voyage in a borrowed rice cargo boat, Basho wrote: “Gathering as it goes / All the rains of June, how swiftly / The Mogami flows!”
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 1.5 Mpixels (4.29 MB uncompressed) - 1500x1000 pixels (5.0x3.3 in / 12.7x8.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Basho, Mogami river
Published in: Japan, On the Trail of a Ghost