"Sparrows fly over the sea
    Being blow off now while the streamer
         Is fluttering in the wind"
 
                                  (Hakyo Ishida)

Hakyo Ishida composed this Haiku touched by the birth of his first son.
He would wished his son for the free will to fly up into the air with all one's might.
This Haiku monument was located at the side of the gymnasium of Kakio Junior High School in his country home.
The characters on this monument were the enlargement of his own handwriting and carved on the natural stone.
This monument was built in 1980 (Showa 55).