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🌬️HUT OF THE FALLEN PERSIMMONS😮
A straw raincoat hangs beside the door at Rakushisha (落柿舎), indicating that the host is home.
The small cottage was home to Mukai Kyorai (向井去来), chief disciple of Matsuo Bashō. It was here Bashō composed 'Saga Nikki' (嵯峨日記) in 1691.
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🌬️HUT OF THE FALLEN PERSIMMONS😮
A straw raincoat hangs beside the door at Rakushisha (落柿舎), indicating that the host is home.
The small cottage was home to Mukai Kyorai (向井去来), chief disciple of Matsuo Bashō. It was here Bashō composed 'Saga Nikki' (嵯峨日記) in 1691.
#Arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #persimmons #Japan #Rakushisha #落柿舎
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Mukai named his hermitage 'Hut of the Fallen Persimmons' (落柿舎 'Rakushisha') in the autumn of 1689.
40 persimmon trees stood in the cottage grounds, and he sold the fruit in advance to a merchant. Shortly before harvesting a storm struck, and Mukai awoke to find the trees stripped.the persimmon's astringent-
the crow, too, knows
and passes on
渋柿と烏も知つて通りけり
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1820.