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BASHO STONE MONUMENT
Ichi no Torii Shimotazawa, Kurohonecho, Kiryu

In the vicinity of Sumire Bridge in Ichi no Torii there is a tanka monument erected by the poet Arai Ippyo who actively composed poetry around the end of the Edo Era and into the beginning of the Meiji Era. The Haiku poet, Basho, composed the poem engraved on the monument.


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