Semizuka Stone Mound
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To honor Matsuo Basho and the famous cicada haiku he wrote in Yamadera, this haiku was written upon a tanzaku paper strip and buried in the ground. The stone mound erected on this site is known as the Semizuka, or “cicada mound.”