The back of three-storied Pagoda in Ishiteji Temple

"The wind drive drizzle rain
on to the stone of Stone Monument
just in late autumn now"
(Tankikaku)Utsunomiya

This Haiku monument is located at the northern side of the three-storied pagoda in Ishiteji Temple. Stone Monument was meant the old Basho's mound of "Kanyu" and built in the beginning of winter of 1882 (Meiji 15).
Tankisei Utsunomiya's pen name were Tansei, Mudai, Kiseki, Houraisha and so on.
He is a pupil of Tansetsu Utsunomiya and lived in 2ban-cho in Matsuyama. he was a fortunetelling by profession and died at the age of eighty eight in 1909 (Meiji 42).He had been close to Shiki.

  "It seems to me that
       a willow is depending entirely on others 
                 In everything in the wind"
                          

This Haiku monument was built in the precinct of Sennenji Temple in 1ban-cho, Matsuyama.
And the Haiku monument of pen name "Kiseki" was built too, in Tenmangu Shrine of "Kutsunugi" in Kubota-cho.