Oku no Hosomichi

A phantom landscape that you can't see now. Matsuo Basho was impressed by the elephant-gata Kujukushima [in Akita Prefecture...

Kisakata Kujukushima is a scenic spot located on the Sea of Japan coast in Nikaho City, at the northern foot of Mt. Chokai, which rises on the prefectural border between Akita and Yamagata. Rice field...

NORIJUN2024.11.05

Scenic spots

Tagajo, the mysterious northern capital that also appears in the poetry pillows of the Heian period [Miyagi Prefecture]

Tagajo is a castle built as a base for controlling the Emishi (Tohoku region), which was an unexplored land by the Yamato Imperial Court during the Nara period, and is a castle that is...

NORIJUN2022.10.05