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- Sakata
- Speckled stones, Goten, refers to a place where the stones in the river
are like Go stones. Eagle Rapids is wher ethe force of the water is strong.
Apparently Basho did not actually float down the rough upper stretch of the
river. Mount Itajiki is an utamakura. Sakata is a busy commercial port
specializing in Shonai rice and benihana.
- Old times
- The rice boats used by the farmers are "inabune" which are much celebrated in poetry.
- Silver Threads
- Shiraitotaki is one of 48 waterfalls on the Mogami River and is the highest
of them all. This is a falls much referred to in poetry. An example is
found in the Kokinshu #1092:
Mogamigawa/ noboreba kudaru/ inabune no/
inanihaarazu/ kono tsuki bakari.
(Boats go up and down the river/ Mogami,
loading rice/ Enjoying the view, pray, wait a month/ Be sure I love you
true. H.H. Honda).
- Sennindo
- Sennindo is actually upstream from Shiraito Taki. It is a shrine
in honor of Yoshitsune's retainer Hitachibo Kaison.
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