Masaoka Shiki Haiku Monument
A monument for Masaoka Shiki in Dogo Park, in front of the Shiki Memorial Museum. It is inscribed with the tanka "Ashinae no yamai iyu to fu Iyo no yu ni" and was erected for the 50th anniversary of Shiki's death in 1951 (Showa 26).
In Dogo Park, in front of the Matsuyama Shiki Memorial Museum, stands a monument inscribed with Masaoka Shiki's tanka "Ashinae no yamai iyu to fu Iyo no yu ni tobitemo yukana sagi ni aramaseba". It was erected on September 19, 1951 (Showa 26) for the 50th anniversary of Shiki's death.
Masaoka Shiki
Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) was a haiku poet, tanka poet and scholar of the Japanese language, born in the domain of Iyo-Matsuyama (now Hanazono-cho, Matsuyama). From 1893 (Meiji 26), as a journalist at the newspaper "Nippon", he serialized "Dassai Shooku Haiwa" and led a movement to reform haiku. In 1895 (Meiji 28) he returned to Matsuyama and lodged in the same house as Natsume Soseki, who was then teaching at Matsuyama Middle School.
Besides Shiki's own monument, Dogo Park also has a monument at the north entrance with verses by Shiki and Soseki carved side by side. You can see them together with the neighboring Shiki Memorial Museum.
Source: Matsuyama Shiki Memorial Museum, "Ehime no Kuhi" http://www.haiku-matsuyama.jp/dogo/208/ ／ "Masaoka Shiki" Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) Last confirmed: October 5, 2026
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