Miidera no Mon Tatakabaya Kyo no Tsuki (Haiku poetry)
On the night of the full moon in August in 1691, the day of the harvest moon, a moon-viewing haiku poet gathering splendidly took place at the Mumei-an in Kisozuka. For haiku composers, August in the lunar calendar meant “exclusively poetry about the moon” and “only the moon in your mind”; therefore, the haiku poet […]