2 volumes/1686/Iazawa-cho, Enmei-ji Temple,/Shihon Bokusyo (Inked on the paper)
hand scroll/36.8cm×416.8cm and 36.8cm×571.8cm

City-designated tangible cultural property (Art craft) (March 30th, 1985)

Shihon Bokusho
Oyodo Michikaze was a poet who traveled on foot throughout all of Japan. This is the scenery of Enmei-ji temple he drew upon his return home in 1686.

He was born the son of a wealthy merchant family in Izawa -mura (today’s Izawa-cho). His real name was Mitsui Tomofumi. Interested in Haikai (a Japanese style of poetry) from childhood, he was finally allowed to quit the family business to pursue poetry at the age of 31, changing his surname to “Oyodo.”
While teaching Haikai he once set a record by composing three thousand Haikai poems in a single night. After this he assumed the name “Michikaze,” which literally means “three thousand gusts of wind.”