"I'll go all by myself
Parting from the members of eleven
In this evening late in autumn"
(Shiki)
This monument was built in 1960 (Showa 35). And the characters on this monument was Kyokudo's handwriting. This had been the last Haiku composed by Shiki in Matsuyama.
Since the summer of 1895 (Meiji 28), Shiki stayed with Soseki at Gudabutsu-an Hermitage for fifty days and more.
On Oct. 17th of 1895 (Meiji 28), eighteen persons of Soseki, Kyokudo and others held the farewell party for Shiki and then Shiki set out on a trip for Tokyo leaving here Matsuyama.
On the very same day, Shiki passed a night at the shipping agency of "Kubota" in Mitsuhama.
On the following day, 18th, ten members of "Shofu-kai" visited Shiki and drank cups of farewell "sake" with each other lively.
As the night went on, all of members had left, and Shiki sit very much alone under the lamp light despondently and his heart had been filled with feelings of loneliness of night late in autumn."I have had busy days
Coming home in full bloom of ballonflowers
Leaving when chrysanthemums are open"
(Shiki)
