What day is it today? Tohoku Edition [0522]

[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is May 22nd?

Sora's death

Statue of Kawai Sora at Risshakuji Temple in Yamadera, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Statue of Kawai Sora at Risshakuji Temple in Yamadera, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture

May 22nd is the anniversary of the death of haiku poet Kawai Sora, and is also a summer seasonal word in haiku, "Soraki .

Kawai Sora was a haiku poet in the mid-Edo period, and is counted as one of the Ten Philosophers of the Basho School, as he was a disciple who accompanied Matsuo Basho on his journey through Oshu and Hokuriku in "The Narrow Road to the Deep North. "

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