Kobayashi Issa Haiku Monument
A haiku monument for Kobayashi Issa at the north entrance of Dogo Park. It is inscribed with "Nekoronde cho tomaraseru sotoyu kana" and was erected in 1950 (Showa 25).
The Kobayashi Issa Haiku Monument stands at the north entrance of Dogo Park. It is inscribed with Issa's verse from his visit to Dogo, "Nekoronde cho tomaraseru sotoyu kana", and was erected in 1950 (Showa 25). The characters are in the hand of the Matsuyama haiku poet Sakai Mokuzen.
Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), whose real name was Kobayashi Yataro, was a haiku poet of the late Edo period born in Kashiwabara, Shinano Province (now Shinanomachi, Nagano Prefecture). He is loved for a simple style full of everyday life, and is said to have left more than 20,000 verses in his lifetime.
Dogo Park was laid out on the site of Yuzuki Castle, and haiku monuments for Issa and Basho, as well as for poets with ties to Matsuyama, are scattered through the park.
Source: Matsuyama Shiki Memorial Museum, "Ehime no Kuhi" http://www.haiku-matsuyama.jp/dogo/212/ ／ "Kobayashi Issa" Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) Last confirmed: October 5, 2026
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