The three honorable Haikai originators' legends The three pairs of hanging scrolls

" It seems to me insulting
    That the fallen leaves of paulownia drown
       The sound of Japanese panpipes"
          (Kikaku : to the picture of Japanese panpipes) 

Notes : Japanese panpipes is the traditional Japanese wind instrument
resembling panpipes

" Blossoms are scattered
     By birds that scared
         At dust on koto"
          (Basho : to the picture of koto) 

Notes:"dust on koto" is after the histrical fact that good sonds
fluttered the dust on the koto.

"I'm seeing the blue sea
    The sound of drum have very softened
        And Spring is in the air"
          (Sodho : to the picture of drum)

Between 1692 (Genroku 4) and 1699 (Genroku 7), Tansetsu Kano drawed the pictures, on that the three of Kikaku, Basho and Sodho wrote a caption each other, at the request of Shukuzan Hisamitsu belonged to the domain of Matsuyama.