The Mogami River begins in Michinoku Province, and its upper reaches mark the boundary of Yamagata. In the middle of its course there are such hazardous places as Goten and Hayabusa. Thereafter it flows along the northern side of Mount Itajiki and empties into the sea at Sakata. Along both its banks the mountains rose upon us as if to close over the river, and the vegetation was wildly luxuriant. Yet through such passage boats drop downstream towards the sea. Was it not because they carried rice that they were called riceboats in our older poetry? We passed Shiraito Falls cascading among a cluster of freshly leaved trees, and the pavilion of the Immortals standing hard by the river. The swollen current rages along, a certain danger to our boat plying on.

The summer rains
Collecting in a surging current:
The Mogami River.