the dragonfly's

Kobayashi Issa

the dragonfly's

100 prayer pilgrimage...

Mount Atago

 

 

 

Translation by David G. Lanoue

Atago is a mountain near Kyoto with a major shrine at its summit. On the 24th day of Sixth Month in Issa's time pilgrims who climbed to it just once would reap the benefits of one thousand climbs