Machiboke Monument

Machibouke statue

Kitahara Hakushu is one of the most famous poet in Japan. He was born there and this ruin is the monument of his poem. These poems were turned into the nursery rhymes. We used to sing those songs in ...

It's a little creepy.

Original Text

A monument built by the poet Hakushu Kitahara, who wrote the nursery rhyme "Waiting Boke", grew up in Yanagawa. Since it faces the moat, you can see the front of the monument from the boat down the river. It is a girl statue with a hand on the straw, but it is a little creepy expression.

Kitahara Hakushu's songwriting song 'machiboke'

Original Text

　Yanagawa is the birthplace of Hakushu Kitahara, and there is also his memorial hall. The famous nursery rhyme "Machiboke" written by Hakushu Kitahara was a stone monument. We enjoyed the downstream of Yanagawa, but in the latter half of the downstream of １ about an hour, there was a monument of this town on the outside of the curve where the moat turned left ９０ degrees. Just as I passed this monument, the captain of the Donkofune sang a song of "Machiboke".

it was at the edge of the yanagawa river.

Original Text

　I saw this "Machiboke Monument" from the donko boat down the Yanagawa river. １ When the river descent was about to reach the second half, there was a part where the moat turned left at almost right angles, and it was at that corner. The lyricist of the nursery rhyme "Machibouke" was Hakushu Kitahara, and Yanagawa was a place related to the Kitahara Hakushu Memorial Hall. The boatman of the Donkofune sang "Machibouke" around here.

this is the famous...

Original Text

I remembered the song of Machiboke, which I learned in the music class when I was in junior high school, and the boatman sang it. Is this that! It was like that. Isn't it better to see from the river? As for my interest, it is a place like ～ that is a place to take a commemorative photo or aim for this, but it was a good location to remember nostalgic memories I think.