Nakayama is in between Narita And Haneda International Airport

Visit to the Literay Monuments of Tanka, Haiku and Poems

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There are many literary monuments in the landmarks in Katsushika areas introduced in this site 'A Walk on Nakayama Shimousa' so many poets and writers has lived and wrote their works describing the areas, they show what the areas had been.
Katsushika along Edogawa River was on the important traffic point in Edo period, thousands of products from northern provinces had been bringing by ships on the river. Meiji to early Showa era, the areas became the scenic spots for villas and many merchants and politicians in Tokyo built them. Especially, Mama in Katsushika has appeared on many tanka poems since Manyoshu was edited in Classic Japan. In Edo period, Mama was a popular tourist resort, it was introduced on a guide book in that period, 'Edo Meisho Zue' and it was drawn on an ukioe picuture by Hiroshige Utagawa, so Issa Kobayashi, Basho Matsuo and so many poets had visited. Late Meiji era, the famous haiku poets, Shiki Masaoka and Kyoshi Takahama described the sights in their works. In Taisho era, Hakushu Kitahara came to live. After WWII, Rohan Koda, Kafu Nagai and Yoko Mizuki came to live in.
In this page, some of the noted spots having literary monuments in them are introduced. While walking to them, you could feel what poets and writers would see. Why don't you visit them?

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The Literary Monuments in the Noted Spots

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