Mount Mikamo and Manyoshu Poetry Monument
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A peak celebrated in the Manyoshu along the ancient Tosando road, dotted with dogtooth violet and poetry stones
Mount Mikamo, spanning Sano and Tochigi cities, is a historically significant scenic spot celebrated in the Manyoshu poetry anthology.
Despite being a low mountain at 229m, it blooms with seasonal flowers and is renowned for its dogtooth violet colonies.
The Manyoshu contains a poem praising the beauty of maidens near Mount Mikamo in Shimotsuke.
Poetry monuments dot the mountainside, allowing visi…
Mount Mikamo, straddling Sano and Tochigi cities in Tochigi Prefecture, has been celebrated as a scenic landmark of Shimotsuke Province since antiquity. Around the mid-8th century, during the Nara period, it was immortalized in the Manyoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, in a verse praising the b…
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