"I have found yet again
A person having on a lined kimono
Are going on through Mitsukuchi"
(Shiki)
This Haiku was composed in the summer of 1892 (Meiji 25). The name of "Mitsukuchi" derived from that Mitsukuchi was the gateway to Mitsu and the important point of traffic. From this point, a pine-tree-lined road went on to Mitsu.
Everybody used to go on foot to Mitsu until Botchan train of Iyo Railway Company had been opened to traffic, on October of 1888 (Meiji 21).
A lined kimono is the kimono with a cloth backing to change the padded garment for winter season into a lined kimono.
This Haiku implies that Shiki found a person dressed himself lightly in his lined kimono once again.
Shiki composed this Haiku having the feeling suitable for early summer.
This is the poetic charm to early summer in Matsuyama, a hundred years ago.
The name of street car stop of Iyo Railway Company changed into "Kaya-cho 6-chome" from "Mitsukuchi".
Shiki's own handwriting.
