Minamimogami

The Mogami River winds through the inland valleys of Dewa, carrying the waters of the southern Mogami country toward the Sea of Japan. At Ōishida, the river also brought together poets. In 1689, on his journey through the north, Matsuo Bashō and his companion Sora joined local poets Takano Ichiei and Takakuwa Sensui to compose a thirty-six-verse linked poem. The surviving scroll is known as the Mogami River kasen.