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- Kurikara-dani
- Unohanayama is an Uta Makura found in Manyoshu #1963:
Kakubakari/ ame
no furaku ni/ hototogisu/ unohanayama ni/ nahoka nakuramu.
Kurikaragatani is a valley located on the border between the provinces
of Kaga and Etchu and is the valley below Kurikaratoge Pass. This is the
site where in 1184 Kiso no Yoshinaka led his forces against the great Taira
army and drove them back in defeat. Yoshinaka won a night battle by tying
flaming torches to the horns of cattle and stampeding them through the Taira lines in front of his advancing army. Curiously Basho makes no mention of this, especially since the Taira army was led by Koremori.
- July the fifteenth
- This is August 29 by the western calndar.
- Kasho
- A haiku poet who has two verses included in Basho's later anthology
Saru Mino. He died in 1718.
- Issho
- Issho belonged to the Kosugi family and was a resident of Kanazawa. He
studied poetry with several other masters before becoming a disciple of
Basho's. He had died on December 6 of the previous year at the age of
36 and is buried at the Gannenji Temple.
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