 Location
: Inside Sumiyoshi Park, 1-1, Hamaguchi-higashi
Access : Nankai Railway Sumiyoshi. Taisha Station (next to the station)
Basho Matsuo visited Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine on the night of September
12, 1694 for the Sumiyoshi "Takara-no Ichi" Shinto ritual. Inspired
by a stall in front of the shrine selling sake by the "masu"
(a traditional unit of measurement), he composed a haiku; the monument
bears an inscription of his haiku.
Basho died the following month. The monument was created in the autumn
of 1864; it features a round hole in the top in homage to the moon, which
featured in this, and other of Basho's haiku.
Sumiyoshi Park also features monuments to the Tale of Genji and the Shiokake
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Basho Haiku Monument
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