This Haiku monument was built halfway up the stone stairs of matsuyama Shrine.
Mokuzen was in his thirty-eightth calendar year, when he took his new post of the director of Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital after graduation from the medical department of Tokyo University on March of 1920 (Taisho 9).
Kyoshi Takahama gave him a haiku " An east wind get the doctor board on the ship for Takahama", to celebrate his happy future. Since that time, he left great marks in both the regional medical treatment and the world of Haiku for fifty years. After living in Iyo - Matsuyama for half a century, he died on 8th Jan. of 1972 (Showa 47), without waiting for his 90th birthday (15th March), This Haiku on this monument, that was built on 15th march of 1972,is the commemorative Haiku giving reply to Kyoshi's Haiku.
Toshio Takahama has the next Haiku. - Giving a memorial haiku for Mokunen's soul - It was a bitter disappointment " As for me, not to wait for the east breeze blowing"
