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The scenery by the moat is as of the Meiji era. The school house of Matsuyama Junior High School was on the right-hand side of the moat. (between 1891 and 1916) Please click on the this photo, and you can take the present scene of the same place. |
Matsuyama Junior High School once stood at this place that is remenbered in connection with Soseki.
In 1885,Soseki Natsume taught English at this place.
The scenes of a masterpiece of "Botchan" was laid in this Matsuyama Junior Highschool. At the newly building of Shikoku Denden bldg.,this monument was built with planting a tree of eucalyptus which has been rising in the school garden at that time.
"When I'm saying good by,
A bird is crying out and,
Flying high into clouds."
"A bird fly into clouds"is a season word of Spring. Soseki compared himself to the image of a bird when he left for Kumamoto in 1886.
