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Basho’s route led across the Mogami River. When he crossed in July 1689, the river was swollen with rainwater and running dangerously fast. After his “perilous” voyage in a borrowed rice cargo boat, Basho wrote: “Gathering as it goes / All the rains of June, how swiftly / The Mogami flows!”

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