The Remains of Matsuyama municipal high grade school.
(Bancho elementary school)

 "A spring breeze is blowing
      I'm standing on my feet on a hillock
           Entertaining a fighting spirit"

                                   (Kyoshi Takahama)

He made a point of keeping firmly the tradition of Haiku to object and challenge to "The new trend movement" made by Hekigotou in 1913(Taisho 2). He called his group "Group to keep old type" and challenged "The new trend movement" to a fight. This Haiku was originated at that time.
He was after the plasinness and aftertaste of Haiku called "Kacho-Fuuei" in the world of Haiku and finally came to prescribe that Haiku is the poem of "Kacho-Fuuei" in 927(Showa 2). "Kacho-Fuuei" have the meaning of the natural phenomena occurred by the change of the seasons and the human phenomena with that. He said Haiku is the poem to compose "Kacho-Fuuei" and "Fuuei" is the admire comming into one's heart too.
At that time, his view of Haiku have been carried through by keeping the two big rules - 17 characters and Season word - and composed "Kacho-Fuuei" at a point of the objective literary sketch. "Hototogisu" editted by Kyoshi had come up to the number 1,000 at last, at the April number of it, in 1030(Showa 5).